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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Social health is the sum total of a community's ___________________.
(a) Governmental anchors.
(b) Public anchors.
(c) Social anchors.
(d) Psychological anchors.

2. Why does Garbarino try to help others understand violent youth?
(a) Because he wants to rescue the person inside the violent youth.
(b) Because he wants to rehabilitate society.
(c) Because he wants people to better themselves.
(d) Because he wants to help people learn about themselves.

3. What has increased along with youth violence in the United States?
(a) Median incomes.
(b) Adult violence.
(c) The prevalence of risk factors associated with youth violence.
(d) Racism.

4. 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) Social pressures to conform.
(c) The resentment they feel inside.
(d) The emptiness they feel inside.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the morality of violent boys often primitive?

2. Youths who participate in the drug economy or chronic theft have distorted __________________.

3. What is the term for the identifying line of those we feel morally obligated to?

4. What does the author argue is the other factor when, combined with rick factors, influences homicide rates?

5. What is amoral?

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