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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Many youths who participate in violence are found to have been these during childhood.
(a) Players of video games.
(b) Bullies.
(c) Victims of bullies.
(d) Readers of comic books.

2. What do children use to measure the danger around them?
(a) The reaction of those around them.
(b) The thoughts of public figures.
(c) Their own thoughts and emotions.
(d) The feelings of siblings.

3. Youth exposed to violence at home and in society are more apt to develop this, according to the fifth rule of violent boys' lives.
(a) Resentment.
(b) Dehumanization.
(c) Juvenile vigilantism.
(d) Anger.

4. Children are fundamentally ________________.
(a) Liberal.
(b) Racist.
(c) Sexist.
(d) Conservative.

5. What has Terrence Real identified as one of the major sources of depression in males?
(a) High expectations.
(b) Low opinions of others.
(c) Low value of life.
(d) Low self esteem.

6. What does psychiatrist James Gilligan believe most acts of violence are caused by?
(a) A perceived injustice.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Relationship issues.
(d) Gangs.

7. Garbarino believes that as children pass into adolescence, they are more vulnerable to ___________________.
(a) Violence.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) Anger.
(d) Melodrama.

8. Recidivists are those who ________________________.
(a) Never return to prison following release.
(b) Are sent back to prison after release.
(c) Those put on probation after release.
(d) Those who never go to prison.

9. The 'abuse excuse' defense is believed to occur when boys make up incidents of abuse, in order to __________________________.
(a) Anger their parents.
(b) Escape punishment.
(c) Gain respect.
(d) Gain sympathy from judges.

10. The monastery approach focuses on ____________________.
(a) Confrontation and dominance.
(b) Order and anger.
(c) Contemplation and reflection.
(d) Power assertion and structure.

11. Garbarino claims some boys seek out images of evil and become addicted to them as a way of responding to what?
(a) The emptiness they feel inside.
(b) The resentment they feel inside.
(c) The anger they feel inside.
(d) Social pressures to conform.

12. Violent boys usually follow a predictable pattern of ____________________.
(a) Abuse.
(b) School development.
(c) Antisocial acts.
(d) Bully behavior.

13. What is the second task, according to Garbarino's political agenda to stop youth violence?
(a) To reduce youth drug and alcohol consumption.
(b) To disarm youths.
(c) To stop child abuse.
(d) To reduce police brutality.

14. What does Garbarino claim that boys, because of masculine socialization, feel an intense pressure to be?
(a) Abusive and cruel.
(b) Tough and powerful.
(c) Tender and sweet.
(d) Kind and considerate.

15. What is the first task, according to Garbarino's political agenda to stop youth violence?
(a) To reduce exposure to violent images.
(b) To reduce police brutality.
(c) To reduce abuse.
(d) To reduce exposure to alcohol and drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Terrance Real's work showed that emotional blockage in violent boys is partially a result of ________________.

2. What causes a breakdown of child protection?

3. The weakness of this trend may not always be apparent, but does little to help in crisis.

4. The term used in the book for the negative elements of the social environment that contaminate children is ___________________.

5. Harry Stack Sullivan said, "Human behavior is more simply ______________________."

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