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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can help turn the tide for violent boys, according to research by Kellam?
(a) Effective classroom management.
(b) Home management.
(c) Psychiatry.
(d) Psychotherapy.

2. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An abuse father and a loving father.
(b) An abusive father and a strict father.
(c) An absent father and a loving father.
(d) An absent father and an abusive father.

3. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?
(a) Repressed anger.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Social avoidance.
(d) A lack of intelligence.

4. How can adults help repair damage from disrupted attachments in children?
(a) Be very strict with the child to avoid problems.
(b) Incarcerate the child before he misbehaves.
(c) Try to take the place of the missing parent.
(d) Provide support for parents dealing with such children.

5. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?
(a) Because he wants to help people learn about themselves.
(b) Because he wants to rescue the person inside the violent youth.
(c) Because he wants to rehabilitate society.
(d) Because he wants people to better themselves.

6. What does Garbarino claim is one of the most important aspects of child development?
(a) A connection to a caregiver.
(b) A connection to God.
(c) A connection to themselves.
(d) A connection to peers.

7. What does the term 'bad seed' imply?
(a) That someone is diseased.
(b) That someone is taught bad behaviors.
(c) That someone is not rehabilitative.
(d) They someone is born bad.

8. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Lower.
(b) Nine times as high.
(c) Twice as high.
(d) Three times as high.

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

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

11. Why do abused children have a tendency to view the world differently?
(a) They create abnormal social maps by adapting to abuse.
(b) They feel helplessness, which turns to anger.
(c) They have a dislike for everyone.
(d) Their abuse often causes neurological disorder.

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

13. What did Josh mean when he asked his father to note the color and names of those in the newspaper?
(a) He was referring to the fact that most were black or Hispanic.
(b) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were Hispanic.
(c) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were white.
(d) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper had odd names.

14. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?
(a) 230,000.
(b) 230.
(c) 23,000.
(d) 2,300.

15. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?
(a) A depressed person.
(b) An angry person.
(c) A violent killer.
(d) An untreated traumatized child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

2. What population has the highest rate of truancy?

3. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?

4. How long has the author been studying violent youth?

5. Why does the author blame improved care of premature babies for part of the youth violence issue?

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