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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In New York City, what did analysts credit with the precipitous drop in violent crime?
(a) Innovative policing.
(b) After-school programs.
(c) Community development.
(d) Number cooking.

3. Which of the following is not one of the three types of incentives?
(a) Economic.
(b) Moral.
(c) Social.
(d) Spiritual.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The amount of money spent on every season's election campaigns is the same as the amount spent by Americans yearly on what?

2. According to James Alan Fox in 1995, what is the minimum rise in violent crime to be expected in the next decade?

3. How do teachers most often cheat on standardized tests?

4. What is the average annual salary of a bottom-tier sumo wrestler?

5. What is the central action of economics?

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