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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was "Early Warning, Timely Response" supposed to help with?
(a) Responding to community needs.
(b) Responding to student threats.
(c) Dealing with violent youth.
(d) Dealing with broken homes.

2. Garbarino claims some boys seek out images of evil and become addicted to them as a way of responding to what?
(a) The anger they feel inside.
(b) The resentment they feel inside.
(c) Social pressures to conform.
(d) The emptiness they feel inside.

3. Boys respond to risk factors with antisocial behavior, whereas girls respond with ___________________.
(a) Promiscuity.
(b) Violence issues.
(c) Teen pregnancy.
(d) Internalized problems.

4. What does Garbarino claim we think when we ask if violent youth have any morals?
(a) He believes most think they have morals, but don't follow them.
(b) He believes most think they have morals.
(c) He believes most think they have no morals.
(d) He believes most think they have morals, but are confused.

5. What two patterns of fathers are common in the history of violent boys?
(a) An absent father and an abusive father.
(b) An abuse father and a loving father.
(c) An absent father and a loving father.
(d) An abusive father and a strict father.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?

2. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?

3. How many teenagers report they could obtain a gun within an hour?

4. An extreme lack of confidence in the future is called ___________________.

5. What surprised Garbarino about his experiences with the prosecuting attorney?

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