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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 one hypothesis about why some children have lower resting heart rates?
(a) These children have adapted for survival.
(b) These children have physical abnormalities.
(c) This is a genetic trait.
(d) These children have a low emotional reaction system.

2. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Understand them.
(b) Incarcerate them.
(c) Punish them.
(d) Listen to them.

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

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

5. How many teens in 1992 believed you could trust others?
(a) Nineteen percent.
(b) Fifty percent.
(c) Seventy five percent.
(d) Two percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Learning about the destruction of human bodies is __________________.

2. Having a history of _____________ increases the likelihood one will commit murder.

3. These traits are "hallmarks" of adolescence.

4. What does Garbarino call the spiritual being within a child?

5. Garbarino believes that as children pass into adolescence, they are more vulnerable to ___________________.

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