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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is low resting heart rate associated with, according to the study by Losel, Bender, and Bliesener?
(a) Antisocial behavior.
(b) Abuse victims.
(c) Avoidance personalities.
(d) Social behavior.

2. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?
(a) Thirty percent.
(b) Eighty percent.
(c) Five percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

3. What keeps the soul from dying, according to Garbarino?
(a) A strong sense of self worth.
(b) Temperament, resilience, love, and divine intervention.
(c) A strong religious background.
(d) A resilience to suffering.

4. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(b) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(c) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.

5. What is a risk for boys who grow up without fathers?
(a) They will starve.
(b) They will be uneducated.
(c) They will become early fathers.
(d) They will become 'man of the house'.

6. Which is the most common parenting problem, according to the federal government?
(a) Neglect.
(b) Abandonment.
(c) Mental abuse.
(d) Physical abuse.

7. What trait do some mothers have or develop that can cause behavioral issues in their children, in terms of emotional attachment?
(a) Materialism.
(b) Social anxiety.
(c) Pride.
(d) Psychological unavailability.

8. The term for feeling constantly ashamed, disgraced, humiliated, and worthless is ____________________.
(a) Toxic shame.
(b) Constant shame.
(c) Permanent shame.
(d) Chronic shame.

9. What other areas in the world have seen youth violence due to racism and cultural values?
(a) Germany and Austria.
(b) Russia and China.
(c) South America and Europe.
(d) South Africa and Australia.

10. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?
(a) In depth profiles of everyone killed.
(b) In depth profiles of children killed.
(c) In depth profiles of adults killed.
(d) In depth profiles of police killed.

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

12. What is most important in the effect of parents on children?
(a) How parental behavior shames the child.
(b) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.
(c) How the parent's subtle actions hurt the child.
(d) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.

13. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?
(a) An end to segregation allowed the white classes to leave the minority behind.
(b) An end to segregation allowed the lower class to spread.
(c) An end to segregation allowed the middle class minorities to move from the ghetto.
(d) An end to segregation allowed minorities into the school systems.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.

2. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.

3. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?

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

5. Why does this development hit smaller cities even harder?

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