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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Incorporating both male and female characteristics is called ___________________.
(a) Androgyny.
(b) Depression.
(c) Antisocial.
(d) Vulnerable.

3. Character education supports a set of core values, or ___________________.
(a) Landmarks of success.
(b) Social triggers.
(c) Social anchors.
(d) Pillars of character.

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

5. What did Julio become in prison?
(a) A monster.
(b) A monk.
(c) A gay man.
(d) A leader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?

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

3. What population has the highest rate of truancy?

4. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?

5. This type of influence matters in how a boy behaves in society, regardless of home life.

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