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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 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 do not have to be risk free to succeed.
(d) That teens can have no support and still succeed.

2. A lack of positive purpose is one of the consequences of _____________________.
(a) Abuse.
(b) Early abandonment.
(c) Early violence.
(d) Early social issues.

3. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Racism.
(c) The same gangs that exist in large cities.
(d) The same 'war zones' that exist in large cities.

4. Perpetrator relocation is when the perpetrator is ____________________.
(a) Relocated to family members.
(b) Relocated to state prisons.
(c) Relocated to work farms.
(d) Relocated to a less toxic environment.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?

3. Institutional life for violent boys should communicate __________________.

4. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?

5. The first concern of any residential center should be _____________________.

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