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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the media, what term is given to the new, more dangerous violent criminal in the 1990s?
(a) Enhanced threat.
(b) Superpredator.
(c) Hyperstatistic.
(d) Droog.

2. What Supreme Court case involved Norma McCorvey as plaintiff?
(a) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(b) Gibbons v. Ogden.
(c) Roe v. Wade.
(d) Brown v. Board of Education.

3. Which two groups are the most discriminated against on Weakest Link?
(a) Indians and southerners.
(b) Latinos and the elderly.
(c) Women and the youngest contestants.
(d) Blacks and asians.

4. Which black politician's slim election victory indicates voters might have lied to pollsters?
(a) Barack Obama.
(b) David Dinkins.
(c) Harold Ford, Jr.
(d) Cory Booker.

5. According to Levitt, what do experts use their knowledge for?
(a) The greater good.
(b) The benefit of the uninitiated.
(c) The furthering of the status quo.
(d) A personal agenda.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not an alternate source of funding in the twentieth century?

2. In New York City, what did analysts credit with the precipitous drop in violent crime?

3. What is the central action of economics?

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

5. What percentage of the vote does an incumbent candidate lose on average if he spends half as much money in his second campaign?

(see the answer key)

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