Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

James Garbarino
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 143 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

James Garbarino
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 143 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Garbarino refer to these violent offenders as 'lost boys'?
(a) He believes these boys are really naive and childlike.
(b) He believes these boys lost their happiness.
(c) He believes these boys lost their parents.
(d) He believes these boys lost their souls.

2. What does Garbarino accuse people of not wanting to do, when it comes to violent youth?
(a) Understand them.
(b) Incarcerate them.
(c) Listen to them.
(d) Punish them.

3. In what year did four shootings occur in areas that were not typically hubs of youth violence?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1998.

4. The term for the moment when a small change in the presence of a germ produces a big change in the rate of infection is _______________________.
(a) The dire point.
(b) The natural point.
(c) The tipping point.
(d) The ending point.

5. How many high school boys carry a potentially lethal weapon?
(a) Five percent.
(b) Thirty percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Fifty percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do 'war zone' areas have higher rates of youth violence?

3. What does Garbarino claim is the point of change in the social decline of neighborhoods?

4. What is the name of the game children in 'war zone' neighborhoods play with blocks?

5. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?

(see the answer key)

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