View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?
(a) Color of ties.
(b) Color of shoelaces.
(c) Color of pants.
(d) Color of shirts.

2. What surprised Garbarino about his experiences with the prosecuting attorney?
(a) The attorney didn't care about the law.
(b) The attorney only worried about the boys' crime, not his life.
(c) The attorney didn't care about the crime.
(d) The attorney only worried about the victims.

3. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?
(a) An untreated traumatized child.
(b) A violent killer.
(c) An angry person.
(d) A depressed person.

4. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?
(a) She was killed as a prostitute.
(b) She was shot and killed.
(c) She was arrested for drug possession.
(d) She died giving birth.

5. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(b) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(c) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?

2. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?

3. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?

4. What other type of violence has increased among young men?

5. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 318 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample