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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) First through eighth grade.
(b) Kindergarten through fifth grade.
(c) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(d) Pre-K through third grade.

2. According to the authors, what would be a more reasonable educational concern than the black-white achievement gap?
(a) The white-Hispanic achivement gap.
(b) The rural-urban achievement gap.
(c) The America-Europe achievement gap.
(d) The good school-bad school gap.

3. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Some unknown guiding instinct.
(c) Popular culture.
(d) Peer pressure.

4. What basketball player's recollections does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., cite in his paper "The Economics of 'Acting White'"?
(a) Michael Jordan.
(b) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
(c) Magic Johnson.
(d) Charles Barkley.

5. By how much did the homicide rate among young black males increase over the first five years of the crack boom?
(a) It doubled.
(b) It tripled.
(c) It quadrupled.
(d) It increased by half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Within a single office, who cheats Paul Feldman most?

2. How many bouts does a sumo wrestler have to win in order for his ranking to rise?

3. In what country is the daycare service examined at the beginning of this chapter?

4. Paul Feldman makes his living delivering what to offices?

5. What is Arne Duncan's first course of action after the CPS researchers release their report on cheating?

(see the answer key)

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