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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 big towns, and involved minority boys.
(b) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved minority boys.
(c) They happened in suburbs and small towns, and involved white boys.
(d) They happened in big towns, and involved white boys.

2. This form of attachment indicates a high stress level and inconsolability.
(a) Secure.
(b) Insecure ambivalent.
(c) Disorganized disoriented.
(d) Insecure avoidant.

3. What emotion is often linked with anger in troubled boys?
(a) Humiliation.
(b) Depression.
(c) Control.
(d) Elation.

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

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

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

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

8. What is Garbarino trying to point out throughout these chapters, in terms of the cause of aggressive behaviors?
(a) Only peer structure is important.
(b) Only biological triggers are important.
(c) Only the family unit is important.
(d) Everything must be taken in context.

9. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?
(a) Social policy has increased public housing.
(b) Social policy has caused race battles.
(c) Social policy has caused clustered public housing.
(d) Social policy has caused more poverty.

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

11. What does Garbarino claim anger is a representation of?
(a) Distrust.
(b) Low self worth.
(c) Fear.
(d) Sadness.

12. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?
(a) An end to segregation allowed the lower class to spread.
(b) An end to segregation allowed the white classes to leave the minority behind.
(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.

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

14. 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) Don't care, so they don't fight the infection.
(d) Have too many issues to combat one more.

15. What book is a favorite of the boys at the center?
(a) Red Mars.
(b) Catcher in the Rye.
(c) Autobiography of Malcolm X.
(d) To Kill a Mockingbird.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is common among emotionally retarded boys?

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

3. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?

4. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?

5. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?

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