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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The weakness of this trend may not always be apparent, but does little to help in crisis.
(a) Political activism.
(b) Spirituality.
(c) Materialism.
(d) Psychology.

3. A lack of positive purpose is one of the consequences of _____________________.
(a) Early social issues.
(b) Early abandonment.
(c) Abuse.
(d) Early violence.

4. Finding a way to make something positive out of life is _____________________.
(a) Materialism.
(b) Generativity.
(c) Positivism.
(d) Active coping.

5. What is the primary cause of neurological impairment in boys who are particularly vulnerable to learning violent patterns of behavior?
(a) Child maltreatment.
(b) Accidents.
(c) Birth defects.
(d) Falls.

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

7. Garbarino believes adults should protect children from degrading, dehumanizing, and desensitizing imagery by _____________________.
(a) Minimizing their exposure to peers.
(b) Minimizing their exposure to gangs.
(c) Minimizing their exposure to violent movies, games, and television.
(d) Minimizing their exposure to books.

8. Perpetrator relocation is when the perpetrator is ____________________.
(a) Relocated to state prisons.
(b) Relocated to work farms.
(c) Relocated to family members.
(d) Relocated to a less toxic environment.

9. Youths who participate in the drug economy or chronic theft have distorted __________________.
(a) Psychological images.
(b) Terminal thinking.
(c) Materialistic values.
(d) Concepts of self.

10. Positive parenting practices stimulate _____________________.
(a) Healthy physical development.
(b) Healthy psychological development.
(c) Healthy relationships.
(d) Healthy child development.

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

12. How many levels are there in the Kohlberg's system for moral intellect?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Five.

13. The term used in the book for the negative elements of the social environment that contaminate children is ___________________.
(a) Social toxicity.
(b) Social relations.
(c) Social bias.
(d) Social pressure.

14. What is the term for those who are amoral in psychiatric terms?
(a) Schizophrenic.
(b) Psychopath.
(c) Manic depressant.
(d) Criminal.

15. What does Garbarino claim we think when we ask if violent youth have any morals?
(a) He believes most think they have no morals.
(b) He believes most think they have morals, but are confused.
(c) He believes most think they have morals, but don't follow them.
(d) He believes most think they have morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are violent children learning about adults in their lives at early ages?

2. What has Terrence Real identified as one of the major sources of depression in males?

3. What is deadly petulance?

4. Many youths who participate in violence are found to have been these during childhood.

5. An extreme lack of confidence in the future is called ___________________.

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