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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1968.

2. Garbarino says that at risk populations don't cause the epidemic, they _____________________.
(a) Have too few adults to combat the issues.
(b) Are more ripe for infection.
(c) Have too many issues to combat one more.
(d) Don't care, so they don't fight the infection.

3. Garbarino notes that kids have not changed since he was a teenager, but that this has.
(a) Race relations.
(b) Social environment.
(c) Gender roles.
(d) Social pressure.

4. What does Garbarino call the spiritual being within a child?
(a) The sacred self.
(b) The divine self.
(c) The holy self.
(d) The religious self.

5. Rejected children are at a higher risk for __________________.
(a) Psychological problems.
(b) Educational problems.
(c) Physiological problems.
(d) Social problems.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

2. What does Julio represent?

3. Why do violent boys appear arrogant, according to Garbarino?

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

5. What can happen in these early instances of violence in young boys?

(see the answer key)

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