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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does a lowered resilience and coping ability compound negative social influences?
(a) Because these factors combine to increase violence.
(b) Because these factors combine to lower self worth.
(c) Because these factors combine to increase anger.
(d) Because these factors combine to lower emotional response.

2. How many homicides are there in the U.S. each year?
(a) 23,000.
(b) 230,000.
(c) 230.
(d) 2,300.

3. Having a history of criminal violence in the family makes one's chances of committing murder ___________________.
(a) Twice as high.
(b) Three times as high.
(c) Twice as low.
(d) Nine times as high.

4. What is often the result of emotional disassociation?
(a) A lack of intelligence.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Social avoidance.
(d) Repressed anger.

5. What did some adults do in response to the announcing of the verdict in the Jonesboro trial?
(a) Threatened to kill the young male perpetrators.
(b) Threatened to kill one another.
(c) Threatened to blow up the prison.
(d) Threatened to kill themselves.

6. What is common among emotionally retarded boys?
(a) Social retardation.
(b) Intellectual retardation.
(c) Suicide attempts.
(d) Animal cruelty.

7. What does the term 'bad seed' imply?
(a) That someone is taught bad behaviors.
(b) That someone is diseased.
(c) That someone is not rehabilitative.
(d) They someone is born bad.

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

9. What has been shown to increase obedience during infancy?
(a) A fearful mother.
(b) A non responsive mother.
(c) A strict mother.
(d) A responsive mother.

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

11. What did Julio become in prison?
(a) A gay man.
(b) A monster.
(c) A monk.
(d) A leader.

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

13. What is disassociation?
(a) A disconnection from parental guidance.
(b) A disconnection from emotions to avoid pain.
(c) A disconnection from reality.
(d) A disconnection from society.

14. What are some traits that put a child at risk for becoming aggressive?
(a) High activity level and a lack of fear.
(b) High activity level and a lack of boredom.
(c) High activity level and increased fear.
(d) High activity level and a genius intelligence.

15. What does the author admit he is trying to do by writing this book?
(a) Make sense of grief.
(b) Help the victims of youth violence.
(c) Make sense of youth violence.
(d) Help heal youth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is avoidant attachment?

2. What happened to Malcolm's girlfriend?

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

4. How do some boys become lost, even without purposeful abuse and neglect?

5. What is one reason homicide rates seem to have declined?

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