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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which film boxer do the authors cite in their discussion of honesty in sports?
(a) Rocky Balboa.
(b) Apollo Creed.
(c) Terry Malloy.
(d) Jake LaMotta.

3. Which two cities does Levitt compare in his discussion of police population versus murder rate?
(a) Louisville and Portland.
(b) San Francisco and Chicago.
(c) St. Louis and Tulsa.
(d) Denver and Washington, D.C.

4. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?
(a) They had less access to weapons.
(b) They have been better educated.
(c) They were never born.
(d) They were incarcerated at a younger age.

5. According to Levitt, because something is correlated to something else does not imply what type of relationship between them?
(a) Porportional.
(b) Inverse.
(c) Symbiotic.
(d) Causal

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the authors of FREAKONOMICS consider doing for six minutes?

2. Which of the following is not a bit of specialty information Levitt says a real estate owner claims to have?

3. What percentage of people actually pays for Paul Feldman's wares?

4. Which economist and philosopher does Levitt cite at the end of his introduction?

5. On average, how many more days does a real estate agent generally keep her own house on the market as opposed to someone else's?

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