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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of this chapter, Levitt compares an aspiring parent to what equally deluded hypothetical figure from earlier in the book?
(a) A drug soldier.
(b) A 7-7 sumo wrestler.
(c) A real estate agent.
(d) An uncharismatic politician.

2. Which of the following is not a profession that the authors indicate has been adversely affected by the Internet?
(a) Funeral directors.
(b) Car salesmen.
(c) Surgeons.
(d) Life insurance salesmen.

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

4. 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 child in 1960.
(c) A Black Gangster Disciple Nation soldier.
(d) A young man in Liberia.

5. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child is adopted.
(b) The child's parents regularly take him to museums.
(c) The child's parents regularly read to him.
(d) The child is regularly spanked.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gyges' ring do?

2. In what crime-ridden neighborhood did Venkatesh do his graduate research?

3. Which of the following is not one of the three types of incentives?

4. According to the authors, what euphemism means that a house is largely dilapidated?

5. What is the approximate ratio of abortions:murders in America as stated at the end of the chapter?

(see the answer key)

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