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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been shown to increase obedience during infancy?
(a) A strict mother.
(b) A non responsive mother.
(c) A responsive mother.
(d) A fearful mother.

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

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

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

5. 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 _______________________.
(a) The ending point.
(b) The tipping point.
(c) The natural point.
(d) The dire point.

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

7. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?
(a) Death.
(b) Funeral.
(c) War.
(d) Gangland.

8. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?
(a) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of rejection.
(b) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of a lack of education.
(c) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk for abuse.
(d) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of psychological issues.

9. 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 hurt the child.
(c) How the parent's subtle actions shape the child.
(d) How parental behavior organizes the child's life.

10. What is avoidant attachment?
(a) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child rejects the caregiver.
(b) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child loves the caregiver.
(c) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child is violent toward the caregiver.
(d) The relationship between child and caregiver where the child fears the caregiver.

11. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?
(a) He believes these boys lost their happiness.
(b) He believes these boys lost their souls.
(c) He believes these boys lost their parents.
(d) He believes these boys are really naive and childlike.

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

13. What does Garbarino claim can lead us to humane treatment and rehabilitation?
(a) Better education.
(b) Understanding the gang culture.
(c) Learning about substance abuse.
(d) Learning about the life experiences of violent youth.

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

15. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?
(a) The people are impoverished.
(b) The people have higher buildups of risk factors.
(c) The people are uneducated.
(d) The people have broken families.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is a risk for boys who grow up without fathers?

4. What does Garbarino claim anger is a representation of?

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

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