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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition did Listerine claim to treat in 1920, increasing its sales dramatically?
(a) Syphillis.
(b) Halitosis.
(c) Gingivitis.
(d) Jaw cancer.

2. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Popular culture.
(c) Peer pressure.
(d) Some unknown guiding instinct.

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

4. According to child-rearing "expert" L. Emmett Holt, what is a baby's daily exercise?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Breastfeeding.
(c) Rolling on the floor.
(d) Crying.

5. From what Southern Klan stronghold did Stetson Kennedy hail?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Birmingham.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Tuscaloosa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?

3. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?

4. What is the median annual income of the neighborhood in which the Black Gangster Disciple Nation operates?

5. Which of the following is an action that Gyges undertakes in the story that ends Chapter 1?

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