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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what is the easiest way to ensure your will not get a good response to your dating profile?
(a) Listing that you are unemployed.
(b) Indicating that you do not want a long-term relationship.
(c) Not posting a photo.
(d) Lying about your weight.

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

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

4. What action led to a reduction in blood donors in the 1970s?
(a) An STD test.
(b) A new type of needle.
(c) Monetary compensation.
(d) Donors' names listed in the local paper.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two groups are the most discriminated against on Weakest Link?

2. Which two philosophers does Levitt cite who subscribe to the belief that people are inherently good?

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

4. According to Levitt, because something is correlated to something else does not imply what type of relationship between them?

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

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