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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do some children who are not abused become violent children?
(a) Their parents are bad.
(b) Their parents are antisocial.
(c) Their parents are withdrawn, but not abusive.
(d) Their parents are often gone.

2. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Twice as high.
(b) Three times as high.
(c) Lower.
(d) Nine times as high.

3. What is the name of center Garbarino helps run?
(a) New York Center for Violent Youth Offenders.
(b) Garbarino Center for Wayward Boys.
(c) New York State Center for Boys.
(d) Austin MacCormick Center.

4. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of youth violence.
(b) Help the victims of youth violence.
(c) Make sense of grief.
(d) Help heal youth.

5. What does Garbarino claim anger is a representation of?
(a) Fear.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Distrust.
(d) Low self worth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?

2. How long has the author been studying violent youth?

3. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?

4. Children who lack attachment abilities have difficultly learning ____________________.

5. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?

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