Freakonomics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Steven Levitt
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Freakonomics Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

Steven Levitt
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many American children per year would be saved if parents childproofed their pools?
(a) 400.
(b) 30.
(c) 175.
(d) 250.

2. In a per-hour study of likelihood of dying in a plane versus a car crash, how do they compare?
(a) You are just as likely to die in either a plane or car.
(b) There is no way to figure this.
(c) You are more likely to die in a car.
(d) You are more likely to die in a plane.

3. A quoted study in the text suggest that the United States would have to pay 46 billion dollars to save what animal from extinction?
(a) The snow leopard.
(b) The spotted own.
(c) The grey wolf.
(d) The humpbacked whale.

4. What percentage of people actually pays for Paul Feldman's wares?
(a) 100%,
(b) 87%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 12%.

5. How many times a year are elite sumo tournaments held?
(a) Once.
(b) 3 times.
(c) 10 times.
(d) 6 times.

Short Answer Questions

1. The amount of money spent on every season's election campaigns is the same as the amount spent by Americans yearly on what?

2. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?

3. According to the authors, what is the easiest way to ensure your will not get a good response to your dating profile?

4. What is Stetson Kennedy's pseudonym at the Pittsburgh Courier?

5. What do obstetricians in lower birth-rate areas do more often?

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