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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Twice as high.
(b) Three times as high.
(c) Nine times as high.
(d) Lower.

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

3. Garbarino believes that as children pass into adolescence, they are more vulnerable to ___________________.
(a) Melodrama.
(b) Anger.
(c) Violence.
(d) Peer pressure.

4. What often begins the spiral of depression, anger, and violence in teenage boys?
(a) Frustration due to poverty.
(b) Neurological problems.
(c) Shame at abandonment.
(d) Anger at school.

5. What do children use to measure the danger around them?
(a) The reaction of those around them.
(b) The feelings of siblings.
(c) Their own thoughts and emotions.
(d) The thoughts of public figures.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?

2. What does psychiatrist James Gilligan believe most acts of violence are caused by?

3. What does Garbarino claim is one of the most important aspects of child development?

4. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?

5. Some children are more affected by this than others, according to psychologist Leonard Eron.

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