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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1987.

2. What else is an important factor in youth violence?
(a) How kids think and feel about the world.
(b) How kids act around peers.
(c) How kids act around adults.
(d) How kids think and feel about religion.

3. Why do abused children have a tendency to view the world differently?
(a) They create abnormal social maps by adapting to abuse.
(b) Their abuse often causes neurological disorder.
(c) They have a dislike for everyone.
(d) They feel helplessness, which turns to anger.

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

5. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?
(a) There are more schools to send children to, so only the poorest are exposed
(b) There are fewer schools to send children to, so teachers are overworked.
(c) There are fewer schools to send children to, so everyone has a lower education.
(d) There are fewer schools to send children to, so all are exposed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is compartmentalization?

2. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?

3. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?

4. What do young violent boys tend to show in terms of fear?

5. What does Michael note his brother Robert showed that made him unlikable?

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