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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?
(a) 2040.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2025.

2. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?
(a) They had less access to weapons.
(b) They were never born.
(c) They have been better educated.
(d) They were incarcerated at a younger age.

3. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(b) First through eighth grade.
(c) Pre-K through third grade.
(d) Kindergarten through fifth grade.

4. Where does most of the data regarding children's names come from?
(a) Texas.
(b) New York.
(c) California.
(d) Illinois.

5. What precipitates a member of JT's gang's bringing the Black Gangster Disciple Nation's financial records to Venkatesh?
(a) The demolition of the Nation's housing project.
(b) JT's death.
(c) A federal indictment.
(d) The accountant's child's birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what satirist do the authors liken their own abortion-violent crime claim?

2. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?

3. What was the well-publicized theory that informed the new policing strategies in New York in the Nineties?

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

5. What does Gyges' ring do?

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