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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface - Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?
(a) An end to segregation allowed the white classes to leave the minority behind.
(b) An end to segregation allowed the lower class to spread.
(c) An end to segregation allowed the middle class minorities to move from the ghetto.
(d) An end to segregation allowed minorities into the school systems.

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

3. If a teen has been arrested, and has an already existing risk factor, the odds of the youth committing murder are ____________________.
(a) Twice as high.
(b) Three times as high.
(c) Nine times as high.
(d) Lower.

4. What does Garbarino say is true about the middle class, white killers of the modern age?
(a) They too show an accumulation of risk factors.
(b) They are copy cat killers.
(c) They are not truly violent.
(d) They are spoiled.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Garbarino claim is inside almost every violent teenager?

2. What does Julio represent?

3. What population has the highest rate of truancy?

4. What does Garbarino see little difference in, in terms of psychological significance?

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

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