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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?
(a) She was arrested for drug possession.
(b) She died giving birth.
(c) She was killed as a prostitute.
(d) She was shot and killed.

3. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?
(a) The people have higher buildups of risk factors.
(b) The people have broken families.
(c) The people are impoverished.
(d) The people are uneducated.

4. According to Garbarino's interview of third graders in Illinois, how many believed they could get a gun if needed?
(a) One half.
(b) One third.
(c) Three fourths.
(d) One in twenty.

5. What gift does Garbarino give Malcolm that makes him cry?
(a) A book.
(b) A car.
(c) A journal.
(d) A guitar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can help a child who is abused overcome his/her tainted view of the world?

2. What did Allan, the boy accused of stealing the drug dealer's gun, mean by being "on point"?

3. The term used in the book for the negative elements of the social environment that contaminate children is ___________________.

4. What emotion is often linked with anger in troubled boys?

5. Terrance Real's work showed that emotional blockage in violent boys is partially a result of ________________.

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