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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?
(a) The role of race.
(b) Economic status.
(c) Gender.
(d) Race.

2. What does the author reveal about himself as he discusses difficult children?
(a) He was always well behaved.
(b) He was a difficult child.
(c) He doesn't like working with difficult children.
(d) His brother was a difficult child.

3. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?
(a) They too show an accumulation of risk factors.
(b) They are spoiled.
(c) They are not truly violent.
(d) They are copy cat killers.

4. Why does Garbarino believe the nation took notice of cases such as those of Michael Carneal, Mitchell Johnson, and Andrew Golden?
(a) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved minority boys.
(b) They happened in big towns, and involved white boys.
(c) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved white boys.
(d) They happened in big towns, and involved minority boys.

5. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?
(a) Twenty percent.
(b) Ninety percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Thirty five percent.

6. What is common among emotionally retarded boys?
(a) Intellectual retardation.
(b) Animal cruelty.
(c) Social retardation.
(d) Suicide attempts.

7. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?
(a) High activity level and a genius intelligence.
(b) High activity level and a lack of boredom.
(c) High activity level and increased fear.
(d) High activity level and a lack of fear.

8. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?
(a) Race and color bias.
(b) Class and race bias.
(c) Class and color bias.
(d) Economic and class bias.

9. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?
(a) Blood pressure.
(b) IQ.
(c) Body temperature.
(d) Temper.

10. What has increased along with youth violence in the United States?
(a) Racism.
(b) The prevalence of risk factors associated with youth violence.
(c) Median incomes.
(d) Adult violence.

11. What clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?
(a) Color of ties.
(b) Color of shoelaces.
(c) Color of pants.
(d) Color of shirts.

12. What can help a child who is abused overcome his/her tainted view of the world?
(a) A compensatory relationship.
(b) Medication.
(c) A strong faith.
(d) A high IQ.

13. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of grief.
(b) Help the victims of youth violence.
(c) Make sense of youth violence.
(d) Help heal youth.

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

15. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Listen to them.
(b) Incarcerate them.
(c) Understand them.
(d) Punish them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?

2. What does Julio represent?

3. What does Garbarino call the spiritual being within a child?

4. What other areas in the world have seen youth violence due to racism and cultural values?

5. What do these various options for early violent behavior often depend on?

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