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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 is compartmentalization?
(a) The tendency to put feelings such as fear in the forefront.
(b) The tendency to disassociate from emotions.
(c) The tendency to avoid emotional attachment.
(d) The tendency to put feelings such as fear out of consciousness.

2. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?
(a) Drug overdose.
(b) Homicide.
(c) Car accidents.
(d) Cancer.

3. 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 only worried about the boys' crime, not his life.
(d) The attorney didn't care about the crime.

4. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?
(a) 230,000.
(b) 230.
(c) 2,300.
(d) 23,000.

5. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.
(a) Nine times as high.
(b) Twice as high.
(c) Three times as high.
(d) Twice as low.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the author been studying violent youth?

2. What did the Chicago Tribune publish in 1993?

3. What often begins the spiral of depression, anger, and violence in teenage boys?

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

5. What is low resting heart rate associated with, according to the study by Losel, Bender, and Bliesener?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Garbarino say about society's desire to punish violent youth?

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

5. 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?

6. Describe the first step in how the 'disease' of youth violence spread in the United States.

7. Explain the experience of depression, as felt by boys and men, and why it contributes to youth violence.

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

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

10. Describe the four types of attachment.

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