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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1964, what was a hauntingly simple cause of infant death in the American black community?
(a) Malnourishment.
(b) Colic.
(c) Diarrhea.
(d) Elephantisis.

2. What percentage of his revenue does JT pay to the Board of Directors?
(a) 30%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 20%.
(d) 10%.

3. What comedic Hollywood icon does Levitt quote regarding honesty in this chapter?
(a) Buster Keaton.
(b) Stan Laurel.
(c) W.C. Fields.
(d) Soupy Sales.

4. Which former Supreme Court Justice do the authors quote at the end of the section on capital punishment?
(a) Robert Renquist.
(b) Thurgood Marshall.
(c) Henry Blackmun.
(d) Warren Burger.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Paul Feldman view humanity as a result of his business records?

3. In what year did the drop in New York violent crime begin in the 1990s?

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

5. What two first names were place on identical resumes in the name study of this chapter?

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