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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What keeps the soul from dying, according to Garbarino?
(a) Temperament, resilience, love, and divine intervention.
(b) A strong religious background.
(c) A strong sense of self worth.
(d) A resilience to suffering.

2. What surprised Garbarino about his experiences with the prosecuting attorney?
(a) The attorney only worried about the victims.
(b) The attorney didn't care about the law.
(c) The attorney didn't care about the crime.
(d) The attorney only worried about the boys' crime, not his life.

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

4. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?
(a) Three fourths.
(b) Two thirds.
(c) One third.
(d) One fourth.

5. How long has the author been studying violent youth?
(a) Twenty five years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Fifty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?

2. Which is the most common parenting problem, according to the federal government?

3. What has been shown to increase obedience during infancy?

4. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?

5. What is common among emotionally retarded boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the term 'toxic shame', and what it means to Garbarino.

2. Explain the effect of the historical and cultural patterns of the South on the 'war zones' of larger urban cities.

3. Describe the concept of the tipping point.

4. Explain why Garbarino sees little difference between murder and violent assault.

5. Explain the tie between neurological problems and violence, and why Garbarino blames, again, medical technologies for the rise in neurological issues in children.

6. In addition to negative social maps, what are two other links between abuse and child develop issues?

7. Explain why Garbarino calls these violent youth 'lost boys'.

8. Discuss what happened in 1998 that made the world take notice of youth violence.

9. Explain how this problem in small cities in magnified by the educational system.

10. Explain negative social maps, and how they develop.

(see the answer keys)

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