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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Harry Stack Sullivan said, "Human behavior is more simply ______________________."
(a) Human than otherwise.
(b) Stupid than otherwise.
(c) Animalistic than otherwise.
(d) Godly than otherwise.

3. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?
(a) Threatened to blow up the prison.
(b) Threatened to kill themselves.
(c) Threatened to kill the young male perpetrators.
(d) Threatened to kill one another.

4. What did the two boys in Gloverville have in their car that they drove around for several days?
(a) A dead body.
(b) A kidnapped victim.
(c) A stray dog.
(d) A dead bird.

5. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.
(a) Three times as high.
(b) Twice as low.
(c) Nine times as high.
(d) Twice as high.

Short Answer Questions

1. The 'abuse excuse' defense is believed to occur when boys make up incidents of abuse, in order to __________________________.

2. What do children use to measure the danger around them?

3. Boys respond to risk factors with antisocial behavior, whereas girls respond with ___________________.

4. What does the term 'bad seed' imply?

5. What does Michael note his brother Robert showed that made him unlikable?

(see the answer key)

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