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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Researchers determining whether teachers are encouraging cheating on standardized tests observe classes over how many years?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. What does Gyges' ring do?
(a) It makes him omniscient.
(b) It makes him invisible.
(c) It makes him immortal.
(d) It makes him a giant.

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

4. What precipitates a member of JT's gang's bringing the Black Gangster Disciple Nation's financial records to Venkatesh?
(a) The accountant's child's birth.
(b) A federal indictment.
(c) JT's death.
(d) The demolition of the Nation's housing project.

5. How much did JT's revenue increase over the four year period chronicled in Booty's financial records?
(a) It remained mostly consistent.
(b) It quadrupled.
(c) It doubled.
(d) It tripled.

Short Answer Questions

1. By how much did the homicide rate among young black males increase over the first five years of the crack boom?

2. To what technology do the authors compare the system they use for determining regression analysis?

3. Which of the following is an action that Gyges undertakes in the story that ends Chapter 1?

4. What unethical practice are Atlanta police discovered to have undertaken throughout the 1990s?

5. The authors compare the risk of a crack dealer in JT's gang to the most dangerous job in America. What is that job?

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