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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Paul Feldman's records, when are people least honest?
(a) During holiday seasons.
(b) During tax season.
(c) Early in the morning.
(d) During the winter.

2. What did the authors of FREAKONOMICS consider doing for six minutes?
(a) Giving up.
(b) Falsifying all their data.
(c) Writing a book on a single theme.
(d) Writing a novel.

3. Which of the following real estate terms indicates that a home buyer should bid low?
(a) Corian.
(b) Maple.
(c) Fantastic.
(d) State-of-the-art.

4. To what organization do the authors immediately compare the Black Gangster Disciple Nation?
(a) General Motors.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The American military.
(d) McDonald's.

5. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?
(a) An American serviceman in Iraq.
(b) A Black Gangster Disciple Nation soldier.
(c) A young man in Liberia.
(d) A black child in 1960.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a quoted study in FREAKONOMICS, by what percentage is an aborted child more likely to have grown up in poverty than one that is born?

2. What does Gyges' ring do?

3. From what city is Norma McCorvey?

4. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?

5. In this chapter, Levitt mentions that the average American prostitute makes more than the average American what?

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