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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 clothing item differentiates the levels of progress within the center?
(a) Color of shirts.
(b) Color of shoelaces.
(c) Color of pants.
(d) Color of ties.

2. What is common among emotionally retarded boys?
(a) Intellectual retardation.
(b) Animal cruelty.
(c) Social retardation.
(d) Suicide attempts.

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

4. What else is an important factor in youth violence?
(a) How kids think and feel about religion.
(b) How kids act around adults.
(c) How kids think and feel about the world.
(d) How kids act around peers.

5. How can adults help repair damage from disrupted attachments in children?
(a) Incarcerate the child before he misbehaves.
(b) Provide support for parents dealing with such children.
(c) Be very strict with the child to avoid problems.
(d) Try to take the place of the missing parent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?

2. When bad behavior starts at this point, it is particularly worrisome.

3. How has social policy contributed to youth violence?

4. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what class and race bias are, and how they contribute to a lack of concern for youth violence in minority areas.

2. Explain why Garbarino argues that medical technology is partially to blame for unreliable statistics on homicide rates.

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

4. What does the social biological perspective say about why children face different opportunities and risks for development?

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

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

7. Explain why some abused children avoid these negative social maps?

8. What are the temperamental traits that put a child at risk for trouble and aggression, and what does research on responsive mothers show in light of these traits?

9. Explain why suicides should be included in rates of youth violence.

10. Explain Garbarino's stance on social conditions, and their relationship to youth violence.

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