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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 has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Racism.
(c) The same 'war zones' that exist in large cities.
(d) The same gangs that exist in large cities.

2. 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) Help heal youth.
(d) Make sense of grief.

3. Garbarino believes adults should protect children from degrading, dehumanizing, and desensitizing imagery by _____________________.
(a) Minimizing their exposure to gangs.
(b) Minimizing their exposure to violent movies, games, and television.
(c) Minimizing their exposure to peers.
(d) Minimizing their exposure to books.

4. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?
(a) He believes these boys are really naive and childlike.
(b) He believes these boys lost their parents.
(c) He believes these boys lost their happiness.
(d) He believes these boys lost their souls.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?

3. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

4. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?

5. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?

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