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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?
(a) They happened in big towns, and involved white boys.
(b) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved minority boys.
(c) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved white boys.
(d) They happened in big towns, and involved minority boys.

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

3. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.
(a) Teen pregnancy.
(b) Memory loss.
(c) Religious intolerance.
(d) Abuse.

4. Maltreated boys are likely to be ______________________.
(a) Hyper vigilant to negative social cues.
(b) Hyper vigilant to positive social cues.
(c) Ignorant of negative social cues.
(d) Ignorant of all social cues.

5. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?
(a) That teens can have no support and still succeed.
(b) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.
(c) That teens are better off with a balance of risk and support.
(d) That teens do not have to be risk free to succeed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Garbarino claims some boys seek out images of evil and become addicted to them as a way of responding to what?

2. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.

3. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?

4. What is one hypothesis about why some children have lower resting heart rates?

5. What generates an "intolerability of existence", according to Gilligan?

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