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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is disassociation?
(a) A disconnection from parental guidance.
(b) A disconnection from emotions to avoid pain.
(c) A disconnection from society.
(d) A disconnection from reality.

2. What did the two boys in Gloverville have in their car that they drove around for several days?
(a) A dead body.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) A stray dog.
(d) A kidnapped victim.

3. What are violent children learning about adults in their lives at early ages?
(a) That adults are cruel.
(b) That adults are irresponsible.
(c) That adults are childish.
(d) That adults cannot protect them.

4. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An abusive father and a strict father.
(b) An absent father and an abusive father.
(c) An abuse father and a loving father.
(d) An absent father and a loving father.

5. What does the author reveal about himself as he discusses difficult children?
(a) He was a difficult child.
(b) His brother was a difficult child.
(c) He was always well behaved.
(d) He doesn't like working with difficult children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?

2. What can happen in these early instances of violence in young boys?

3. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?

4. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?

5. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?

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