Video Test- Dangerous Child Name_________________________ The cycle of abusive behavior in families Date_____________Hour________
Cast of Characters-
Write the name of the person and other information in the blank beside their description.
Answer the following questions by placing an X in the blank by correct statements. There may be more than one correct statement for a question.
In the first scene we see Sally in the police department answering questions to the detective. What has happened and why is she there?
_____ 1. Jack is in the hospital because he cut his arm when he put his fist through the window.
_____ 2. Jack and Luke had a car wreck when Jack stormed out of the house mad after drinking at the party.
_____ 3. Jack has hurt Leo in one of his mad rages.
_____ 4. Sally hit Jack so hard that she knocked him out after he hurt her again. _____ 5. Sally was arrested on suspicion of child abuse and endangerment.
We first see Jack arguing with his mother because:
_____ 6. Sally found out that Jack lied about being benched for two weeks. _____ 7. Jack wants to go out, but he had agreed earlier to pick up Leo from school and wants his mother to do it instead.
_____ 8. Sally found out Jack had shoplifted and was upset with him.
_____ 9. Sally doesn’t want Jack to hang out with Luke anymore because she thinks he is a bad influence.
Sally agrees to pick up Leo from school and lets Jack go to the Mall with Luke. What happens that gets her upset?
_____ 10. Jack stayed out later than she said he could.
_____ 11. Sally had called Jack’s coach to check out his story and found out he had lied about practice being cancelled and the other team cancelling the game.
_____ 12. Sally found out from the coach that Jack had been benched for two weeks because of his bad grades.
When Jack was at the mall with Luke they:
_____ 14. Played video games in the arcade. _____ 15. Ran into Kayla and Amber from school. _____ 16. Followed the girls into a store.
_____ 17. Jack flirted with Kayla and decided to shoplift the candles she had been looking at after Luke told him to “Go for it”.
When Jack is arrested for shoplifting, what happens?
_____ 18. He is put into juvenile hall for 90 days.
_____ 19. Sally was called when she was in a meeting with a potential client. _____ 20. He was banned from the mall and released into his mother’s custody. _____ 21. Jack tells Kayla that he took the candles for her because she had been
looking at them.
When Sally confronts Jack about shoplifting “pink candles”, Jack:
_____ 10. Goes to his room, turns the music up loud and tries to ignore her. _____ 11. Gets very angry and throws a glass at the wall.
What does Sally do after her confrontation with Jack about the shoplifting?
_____ 14. She tells Brad about the shoplifting and says she can’t deal with Jack anymore.
_____ 15. She tells Brad that Jack is upstairs asleep to cover for him when Brad asks where Jack was.
_____ 16. She brings a broom upstairs for Jack to clean up the broken glass after Brad leaves.
_____ 17. She tells Jack that she didn’t tell his dad about the outburst and that she needs one of the boys to set the table for dinner.
What is Jack’s excuse for shoplifting the pink candles?
_____ 18. He said he didn’t do it, that Luke did and he just took the rap because Luke had been in trouble before and he would go to jail.
_____ 19. He said that he wasn’t meaning to steal them, he had just put them into his pocket and had forgotten they were there.
_____ 20. He told his mother that he was trying to impress a girl because she had been looking at the candles earlier and he knew she wanted them. _____ 21. He told his mother that he was going to buy the candles for her, but
forgot they were in his pocket.
What does Sally do when she realizes that Jack keeps having the angry outbursts?
_____ 22. She tries to talks to Brad. _____ 23. She talks to Veronica.
What does Jack’s father say when Sally tells him that she is worried about Jack’s violent outbursts?
_____ 26. Brad says that it is Sally’s fault because she treats Jack like he is five
years old.
_____ 27. He says that She, or They, have to watch Jack, but it will be her responsibility because she is the one who is there at the house.
_____ 28. He says that Sally will have to set boundaries and stick to them, that she should be Jack’s mother, not his friend.
_____ 29. He says that Sally should let Jack come live with him since she can’t handle Jack.
What does Veronica say about Jack’s shoplifting and angry outbursts?
_____ 30. Veronica say’s Jack is acting just like his father and she could never understand Sally and Brad together because he blew so hot and cold and had such violent emotional explosions.
_____ 31. Veronica says that Jack’s problems are just because he’s a teenager. _____ 32. Veronica tell Sally that her nephew was having lots of problems two
years ago and now he is graduating with honors.
_____ 33. Veronica says that Sally should just make Jack go live with his father and let him deal with it since he won’t pay child support anyway.
What does the school counselor tell Sally to do about Jack’s problems? _____ 34. He suggests that Jack could be on drugs.
_____ 35. He tells Sally to talk to Jack about school, the music he listens to, to establish a dialog and keep it open.
_____ 36. He suggests that Sally send Jack to a juvenile boot camp until he straightens up.
What does Sally say about Brad and how his emotional outburst made her feel when they first got married?
_____ 38. Sally said that she hadn’t realized until lately that Brad was like that. _____ 39. Sally said that Brad’s temper was part of who he was and that his
outbursts were part of his appeal.
_____ 40. Sally said that Brad’s temper and outburst had made her feel safe. _____ 41. Sally said that Brad hadn’t been like that until after they got married
and the kids were born.
What happens when Frank comes to pick Sally up for their first date? _____ 42. Jack tells Frank to “keep his pants on”.
_____ 43. Sally confronts Jack about being so rude to Frank and he shoves her out of his way and up against a door in the hallway.
_____ 44. Sally asks Jack how he would like it if she talked to his friends that way. _____ 45. Sally covers for Jack saying that he had asked her to apologize to Frank
for his behavior.
What happens when Sally comes home to realize that Jack left Leo alone in the house:
_____ 46. She tells Jack that he is grounded for a month, but he just laughs at her. _____ 47. She asks Jack if he had been with Luke and says it is about time she and
Luke’s mother had a talk about Jack staying away from Luke.
_____ 48. Jack blows up and tells her that she is not going to call Luke’s mother, and tears the necklace he had just given her off her neck.
_____ 49. Jack throws the vase of yellow roses that Frank had given her across the room.
way and Jack put his fist through a window cutting his arm badly.
What had happened at the party that had made Jack so angry when he got home.
_____ 51. The police raided the party and Jack almost got arrested. _____ 52. He was looking for Kayla and found her kissing another guy.
_____ 53. He went after Kayla and the guy she was kissing, but Luke stopped him. _____ 54. He got drunk after seeing Kayla and the other guy.
When they got to the hospital, what happened?
_____ 55. The doctor thought Jack had tried to commit suicide since his arm was cut and they admitted him for psychological testing.
_____ 56. Sally told the doctor that he had tripped over her shoes that she had left on the stairs, lost his balance and fell through the window.
_____ 57. Since Sally answered all of the questions, the doctor thought that she was the one who was abusing jack and he called social services.
_____ 58. Sally hid the mark on her neck where Jack had yanked the necklace off and lied again to cover for Jack’s behavior so that he wouldn’t get in trouble.
What happened when Brad talked to Jack about what led them to the hospital?
_____ 59. Jack told his father that he just felt so “pissed off” all of the time. _____ 60. When Brad asked what had pissed him off, he said that he was upset
from school then Frank had come over.
What did Brad do when he thought that Frank had done something to hurt Jack?
_____ 63. Brad loaded the boys up and took them home to live with he and Marsha.
_____ 64. Brad called Mike, a friend who was a detective with the Oakburn police department, to do a background check on and possibly arrest Frank. _____ 65. Brad started legal proceedings to get full custody of both boys.
_____ 66. Brad told Jack that next time Frank came over to call him and he would take care of him.
When Jack confides in Brad about Kayla saying she want to be friends, then kissing him, what does Brad do? What does Jack do?
_____ 67. Brad tells Jack that it has to mean that Kayla wants him.
_____ 68. Brad suggests in front of Marsha that Jack ask her about whether Kayla likes Jack.
_____ 69. Jack has an angry outburst and runs out of the room.
_____ 70. Brad goes to talk to Jack and asks if he thought Brad was making fun of him and assures him that he wasn’t. He was just trying to help.
When the boys are staying at Brad and Marsha’s house, what happens that makes Marsha think that the boys aren’t happy there and should go home to Sally’s? _____ 71. Jack has blow ups at her almost every night and threatens to hurt her. _____ 72. Leo wets the bed almost every night.
_____ 73. Marsha thinks Jack is just inventing problems because he is trying to the boys because he feels guilty for leaving them.
When Sally comes to Brad and tells him about Jack’s angry outburst, what happens?
_____ 75. Sally tells Brad that she and Jack need to work it out between them and the boys need to come home in order for that to happen.
_____ 76. Brad calls Mike, a friend and detective on the Oakburn police Department, tells him about the incident when Jack ended up in the hospital and asks him to talk to Sally.
_____ 77. Mike talks to Sally and says that after reading the police file that there are several red flags (meaning that he thinks Sally is abusing Jack also). _____ 78. Brad agrees to let the boys come home, but threatens Sally that if
anything happens again, he will go for full custody of the boys.
What happens when Jack suggests Sally invite Frank over for dinner?
_____ 79. Leo starts talking about things that interest him and Frank is impressed and they start to bond.
_____ 80. Jack insists that Frank is making fun of Leo and starts to make fun of Frank trying to break up the conservation between Leo and Frank. _____ 81. Jack goes upstairs and trashes his room saying that he tripped when
Sally comes up to confront him.
_____ 82. Jack says that he doesn’t what Frank back in “his” house or he can’t guarantee what will happen.
_____ 83. Jack shoves Sally into the hall table, knocking over furniture and is about to hit her with a wooden shelf bracket when the police come to the door.
What happens to Gus?
_____ 85. He runs away one night during a fight and they never see him again. _____ 86. Leo hit him and tried to get him to leave so Jack wouldn’t hurt him. _____ 87. Leo found him in the bushes with a broken leg.
_____ 88. Jack beat him up and broke his leg in one of his mad rages.
What happens to Leo?
_____ 89. He blows up at Marsha because she doesn’t remember that he doesn’t like lasagna.
_____ 90. Brad tells him that isn’t the way to deal with things and that he can’t respect him if it ever happens again.
_____ 91. Brad tells him to go talk to Marsha and apologize.
_____ 92. Leo follows Jack back to their house when he goes to apologize to Sally and Jack shoves him into a table when Leo tries to defend Sally in one of Jack’s mad rages.
_____ 93. Leo ends up in the hospital.
What happens to Jack?
_____ 94. Jack is immediately arrested for hurting Leo.
_____ 95. Jack tries to lie saying that Sally hurt Leo, but realizes when they say that Sally will go to jail that he has to tell the truth and get help. _____ 96. Jack is arrested for assault on Sally and Leo.
_____ 97. Jack goes into foster care and is admitted into a court ordered counseling program to help him learn to change his behavior.
What happens to Sally?
_____ 98. She is arrested for assault and child endangerment and taken to jail. _____ 99. Sally finally admits to Mike that she didn’t hurt Leo, that it was Jack. _____ 100. Sally confides in Mike that Jack’s violence against her has been getting
worse and that she had tried to get him help, but couldn’t find anyone to believe her, or to help her.
_____ 101. Sally says that she covered for Jack’s behavior because she didn’t want to get him into trouble, but finally agrees that arresting Jack is the only way to get him help.
_____ 102. Sally is ordered to attend therapy sessions to discover why she put up with Brad and Jack’s behavior for so long.
_____ 103. Sally discovers in therapy that because her father was overbearing and abused her mother that she didn’t realize that Brad was being abusive to her, even though he never physically hurt her.
_____ 104. The therapist tells Sally that getting out of an abusive marriage was a healthy thing to do, it didn’t mean she failed at marriage.
