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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents recently moved to a better neighborhood.
(b) The child frequently watches television.
(c) The child attended Head Start.
(d) The child has a low birth weight.

2. 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.

3. Which of the following is not affected by the rank of a sumo wrestler?
(a) His food.
(b) His entourage.
(c) His housing accomodations.
(d) His earnings.

4. What contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Good and Bad.
(b) Hope and Despair.
(c) Pretty and Ugly.
(d) Winner and Loser.

5. Which of the following is not a group persecuted by the Klan in the twentieth century?
(a) Methodists.
(b) Union organizers.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a public figure that the author mentions as a wealthy man purchasing public office?

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

3. The authors compare the risk of a crack dealer in JT's gang to the most dangerous job in America. What is that job?

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

5. What portion of the full commission does the seller's real estate agent generally get to keep?

(see the answer key)

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