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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The amount of money spent on every season's election campaigns is the same as the amount spent by Americans yearly on what?
(a) Licorice.
(b) Gum.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Stickers.

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

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

5. What percentage commission does a real estate broker generally take from a home sale?
(a) 10%.
(b) 4%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 6%.

6. According to Levitt, what do experts use their knowledge for?
(a) A personal agenda.
(b) The greater good.
(c) The furthering of the status quo.
(d) The benefit of the uninitiated.

7. Which of the following is not a group persecuted by the Klan in the twentieth century?
(a) Methodists.
(b) Union organizers.
(c) Immigrants.
(d) Jews.

8. Which of the following real estate terms indicates that a home buyer should bid high?
(a) Spacious.
(b) For sale by owner.
(c) Granite.
(d) Charming.

9. What action led to a reduction in blood donors in the 1970s?
(a) An STD test.
(b) A new type of needle.
(c) Donors' names listed in the local paper.
(d) Monetary compensation.

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

11. How many bouts does a sumo wrestler have to win in order for his ranking to rise?
(a) 20.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 3.

12. Which of the following is not a reason why crack was so appealing to urban gangs in the 1980s?
(a) Its high fades quickly.
(b) It has a lower chance of overdose.
(c) It is less expensive.
(d) It provides a fast, powerful high.

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

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

15. What Supreme Court case involved Norma McCorvey as plaintiff?
(a) Roe v. Wade.
(b) Plessy v. Ferguson.
(c) Brown v. Board of Education.
(d) Gibbons v. Ogden.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the Chicago Public School system begin widespread standardized testing?

2. What surprising fact about themselves do 7% of the men in the dating-site study reveal on their profiles?

3. What unethical practice are Atlanta police discovered to have undertaken throughout the 1990s?

4. Informational asymmetry indicates the use of information for what?

5. According to Paul Feldman's records, when are people least honest?

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