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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?
(a) Tamera.
(b) Septima.
(c) Metress.
(d) Tempestt.

2. Which of the following is not a bit of specialty information Levitt says a real estate owner claims to have?
(a) The house's true value.
(b) Housing market.
(c) State of the buyer's mind.
(d) Architectural background.

3. What child's name does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., say would indicate alienation from the black community?
(a) Madison.
(b) Hunter.
(c) Madeline.
(d) Logan.

4. What is the median annual income of the neighborhood in which the Black Gangster Disciple Nation operates?
(a) 8,000.
(b) 21,000.
(c) 18,000.
(d) 15,000.

5. Which of the following is an action that Gyges undertakes in the story that ends Chapter 1?
(a) He feeds an entire village.
(b) He murders the king.
(c) He starts a war.
(d) He sleeps for twenty years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which racist American figure is the focus of the final passage of this chapter?

2. Which economist and philosopher does Levitt cite at the end of his introduction?

3. According to the authors, what would be a more reasonable educational concern than the black-white achievement gap?

4. What contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?

5. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?

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