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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Within a single office, who cheats Paul Feldman most?
(a) Visiting employees.
(b) Low level employees.
(c) Executives.
(d) Custodial staff.

2. What unethical practice are Atlanta police discovered to have undertaken throughout the 1990s?
(a) Accepting kickbacks.
(b) Racial profiling.
(c) Underreporting crime.
(d) Selling confiscated drugs.

3. According to normal Weakest Link strategy, who will players vote off in later rounds?
(a) The weakest players.
(b) No one.
(c) Better players.
(d) Themselves.

4. Which black politician's slim election victory indicates voters might have lied to pollsters?
(a) Cory Booker.
(b) Harold Ford, Jr.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) David Dinkins.

5. Which economist and philosopher does Levitt cite at the end of his introduction?
(a) John Stuart Mill.
(b) Jeremy Bentham.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) Karl Marx.

6. Which film boxer do the authors cite in their discussion of honesty in sports?
(a) Rocky Balboa.
(b) Jake LaMotta.
(c) Apollo Creed.
(d) Terry Malloy.

7. What is Arne Duncan's first course of action after the CPS researchers release their report on cheating?
(a) He fires 12 teachers.
(b) He buries the report.
(c) He readministers tests.
(d) He freezesall standardized testing in Chicago.

8. What did the clan call its book of beliefs?
(a) The Klorah.
(b) The Klible.
(c) The Kloran.
(d) The Klagavaad Klita.

9. According to Levitt, what do humans primarily respond to?
(a) Fear.
(b) Passion.
(c) Incentives.
(d) Flattery.

10. In 1960s and 1970s Chicago, what never seemed to happen to street gang members?
(a) They never got arrested.
(b) They were never killed.
(c) They never did their own drugs.
(d) They never had turf wars.

11. What is Stetson Kennedy's pseudonym at the Pittsburgh Courier?
(a) Superman.
(b) Daddy Mention.
(c) John Brown.
(d) Simon LaGre.

12. In what country is the daycare service examined at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Norway.
(c) Germany.
(d) Israel.

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

14. What does Gyges' ring do?
(a) It makes him omniscient.
(b) It makes him invisible.
(c) It makes him a giant.
(d) It makes him immortal.

15. What does Levitt ask of his reader at the end of the introduction?
(a) Money.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Patience.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Oscar Danilo Blandon claim that he sold such extensive quantities of crack cocaine in the late 1970s?

2. How many times a year are elite sumo tournaments held?

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

4. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?

5. In 1987, why did many people stop claiming fake children on their tax returns?

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