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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 population has the highest rate of truancy?
(a) Those in two parent households.
(b) Those in family groups other than a two parent household.
(c) Those in homeless shelters.
(d) Those without any parents.

2. The weakness of this trend may not always be apparent, but does little to help in crisis.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Political activism.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Spirituality.

3. Why do many adults avoid teenagers?
(a) They see them as alien and inscrutable.
(b) They see them as annoying.
(c) They see them as dangerous.
(d) They see them as disrespectful.

4. What surprised Garbarino about his experiences with the prosecuting attorney?
(a) The attorney only worried about the victims.
(b) The attorney only worried about the boys' crime, not his life.
(c) The attorney didn't care about the crime.
(d) The attorney didn't care about the law.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Youth exposed to violence at home and in society are more apt to develop this, according to the fifth rule of violent boys' lives.

2. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?

3. Harry Stack Sullivan said, "Human behavior is more simply ______________________."

4. Maltreated boys are likely to be ______________________.

5. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?

(see the answer key)

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