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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Stetson Kennedy's pseudonym at the Pittsburgh Courier?
(a) John Brown.
(b) Simon LaGre.
(c) Daddy Mention.
(d) Superman.

2. What is the main reason that the price of crack cocaine began to drop in the Nineties?
(a) Its potency began to deteriorate.
(b) Tainted shipments arrived in the US.
(c) Junkies began to switch to heroin.
(d) Dealers undercut each other's prices.

3. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?
(a) Bloodbath.
(b) Armageddon.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Free-for-all.

4. What unethical practice are Atlanta police discovered to have undertaken throughout the 1990s?
(a) Selling confiscated drugs.
(b) Accepting kickbacks.
(c) Underreporting crime.
(d) Racial profiling.

5. According to a quoted study in FREAKONOMICS, by what percentage is an aborted child more likely to have grown up in poverty than one that is born?
(a) 100%.
(b) 30%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 75%.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the first Internet web site to allow consumers to compare life insurance rates?

2. What surprising fact about themselves do 7% of the men in the dating-site study reveal on their profiles?

3. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?

4. What does the ECLS show about the black-white achievement gap for students just entering school?

5. What did DuPont introduce in 1939 to make stockings more affordable?

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