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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 most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How parental behavior shames the child.
(b) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.
(c) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.
(d) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.

2. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?
(a) Social policy has caused race battles.
(b) Social policy has caused clustered public housing.
(c) Social policy has increased public housing.
(d) Social policy has caused more poverty.

3. Trauma occurs when overwhelming ideas combine with ____________________.
(a) Overwhelming thoughts.
(b) Overwhelming feelings.
(c) Overwhelming parental abuse.
(d) Overwhelming peer pressure.

4. In addition to family rejection, what other aspect of life can cause a feeling of alienation in the life of violent youth?
(a) Racism.
(b) Sexism.
(c) A breakup of the family.
(d) Poverty.

5. What can help turn the tide for violent boys, according to research by Kellam?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Psychiatry.
(c) Effective classroom management.
(d) Home management.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else is an important factor in youth violence?

2. What is the term used to signify, among other things, the ability to read emotions of others?

3. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?

4. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?

5. 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 _______________________.

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