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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This form of attachment indicates a high stress level and inconsolability.
(a) Insecure avoidant.
(b) Disorganized disoriented.
(c) Secure.
(d) Insecure ambivalent.

3. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?
(a) There are fewer guns on the streets than ten years ago.
(b) Fewer homicides are actually reported.
(c) Medical technology saves some that would have died of their wounds ten years ago.
(d) There are fewer homicides than ten years ago.

4. Rejected children are at a higher risk for __________________.
(a) Physiological problems.
(b) Educational problems.
(c) Psychological problems.
(d) Social problems.

5. What other areas in the world have seen youth violence due to racism and cultural values?
(a) Russia and China.
(b) South Africa and Australia.
(c) Germany and Austria.
(d) South America and Europe.

6. What phrase does Garbarino use to explain the way the nation reacts to situations, based on color and socioeconomic status?
(a) Economic and class bias.
(b) Race and color bias.
(c) Class and race bias.
(d) Class and color bias.

7. What other type of violence has increased among young men?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Harm to animals.
(c) Robbery.
(d) Rape.

8. What often begins the spiral of depression, anger, and violence in teenage boys?
(a) Anger at school.
(b) Shame at abandonment.
(c) Neurological problems.
(d) Frustration due to poverty.

9. How many kids with negative and aggressive social maps become violent?
(a) Twenty percent.
(b) Five percent.
(c) Ninety percent.
(d) Thirty five percent.

10. What population has the highest rate of truancy?
(a) Those without any parents.
(b) Those in family groups other than a two parent household.
(c) Those in two parent households.
(d) Those in homeless shelters.

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

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

13. What does the accumulation approach to developmental threat show us about success?
(a) That teens can have no support and still succeed.
(b) That teens have to be risk free to succeed.
(c) That teens are better off with a balance of risk and support.
(d) That teens do not have to be risk free to succeed.

14. What has developed in medium cities that has resulted in even more youth violence?
(a) The same 'war zones' that exist in large cities.
(b) Racism.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The same gangs that exist in large cities.

15. What is the leading cause of death for young minority males?
(a) Homicide.
(b) Car accidents.
(c) Drug overdose.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has been found to lower as developmental threats accumulate?

2. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.

3. What causes the most damage, in terms of risk factors for violent behavior?

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 _______________________.

5. How did an end to segregation allow for the growth of youth violence?

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