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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a unifying attribute of parental factors that affect child development?
(a) They can be medically qualitifed.
(b) They involve monetary income.
(c) They can be changed with proper education of new parents.
(d) They occur before the child is born.

2. What percentage of the vote does an incumbent candidate lose on average if he spends half as much money in his second campaign?
(a) 1%.
(b) 3%.
(c) 5%.
(d) 7%.

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

4. What Eighties movie comedy was instrumental in the popularity of the name Madison?
(a) The Money Pit.
(b) Splash.
(c) St. Elmo's Fire.
(d) Stripes.

5. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents regularly take him to museums.
(b) The child's parents regularly read to him.
(c) The child is adopted.
(d) The child is regularly spanked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a bit of specialty information Levitt says a real estate owner claims to have?

2. Which two groups are the most discriminated against on Weakest Link?

3. At the beginning of the Epilogue, the authors reiterate what point made in the Prologue?

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

5. What do the authors acknowledge that objective thinking will not do?

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