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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one of the central controversies in child development, in terms of bad behavior?
(a) Whether bad behavior is socially acceptable.
(b) Whether bad behavior is a reaction to abuse.
(c) Whether bad behavior is programmed genetically.
(d) Whether bad behavior is taught.

3. Why is parental abandonment particularly dangerous?
(a) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of psychological issues.
(b) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk for abuse.
(c) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of a lack of education.
(d) Children in the care of non-biological relatives are at greater risk of rejection.

4. Maltreated boys are likely to be ______________________.
(a) Ignorant of negative social cues.
(b) Hyper vigilant to positive social cues.
(c) Hyper vigilant to negative social cues.
(d) Ignorant of all social cues.

5. Why do many adults avoid teenagers?
(a) They see them as alien and inscrutable.
(b) They see them as annoying.
(c) They see them as disrespectful.
(d) They see them as dangerous.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To help children make better moral choices, adults can help youths develop _________________.

3. How many moral systems do most have?

4. What does Garbarino claim we think when we ask if violent youth have any morals?

5. What does Garbarino call the spiritual being within a child?

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