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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1998.

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?
(a) A withdrawal of positive adults, through divorce.
(b) A withdrawal of attention.
(c) A withdrawal of love.
(d) A withdrawal of parental guidance.

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

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

10. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?
(a) Robbery and armed robbery.
(b) Murder and violent assault.
(c) Suicide and murder.
(d) Domestic abuse and homicide.

11. What does Michael note his brother Robert showed that made him unlikable?
(a) Violent tendencies.
(b) Antisocial tendencies.
(c) Submissive tendencies.
(d) Aggressive tendencies.

12. 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 all in the paper had odd names.
(b) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were white.
(c) He was referring to the fact that most were black or Hispanic.
(d) He was referring to the fact that all in the paper were Hispanic.

13. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Drug overdose.
(c) Homicide.
(d) Car accidents.

14. What population has the highest rate of truancy?
(a) Those in family groups other than a two parent household.
(b) Those in two parent households.
(c) Those without any parents.
(d) Those in homeless shelters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?

2. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?

3. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?

4. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?

5. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?

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