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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what does Freakonomics thinking not traffic in?
(a) Product endorsement.
(b) Morality.
(c) Policy.
(d) False hope.

2. What contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Pretty and Ugly.
(b) Good and Bad.
(c) Hope and Despair.
(d) Winner and Loser.

3. What often catalyzes a big-city mayor's decision to hire more police?
(a) A high-profile murder.
(b) An upcoming election.
(c) A large public event.
(d) A visit from the President.

4. Which pop singer do the authors mention as an example of a celebrity whose name has not caught on?
(a) Cher.
(b) Prince.
(c) Madonna.
(d) Fergie.

5. In what year did the drop in New York violent crime begin in the 1990s?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1994.

6. What service was offered in exchange for firearms in a California gun buyback?
(a) Carwashes.
(b) Massage.
(c) Psychotherapy.
(d) Haircuts.

7. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?
(a) Arab-Americans.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Asians.
(d) Hispanics.

8. How many names from the top ten most popular black boy's names from 1990 do not appear on the 2000 list?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 0.

9. Which of the following is not among the universities listed as names chosen by parents in California in the 1990s?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Yale.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Harvard.

10. Which name is charted in this section as having ten common variations?
(a) Brandi.
(b) Tiffany.
(c) Tabitha.
(d) Jasmine.

11. At the end of this chapter, Levitt compares an aspiring parent to what equally deluded hypothetical figure from earlier in the book?
(a) An uncharismatic politician.
(b) A drug soldier.
(c) A real estate agent.
(d) A 7-7 sumo wrestler.

12. Which figure in the book became a Harvard Fellow after doing field research in South Chicago?
(a) Ronald G. Fryer, Jr.
(b) Stephen Levitt.
(c) Arne Duncan.
(d) Sudhir Venkatesh.

13. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?
(a) Some unknown guiding instinct.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Peer pressure.
(d) Popular culture.

14. Which group generally tests highest?
(a) Urban students.
(b) Rural students.
(c) There is no data on this topic in the text.
(d) Suburban students.

15. What was the name of the Communist dictator of Romania who banned abortion in 1966?
(a) Havel.
(b) Ceausescu.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Honnecker.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Peter Sandman, what is the defining attribute of irrational fears that we have?

3. How much does it cost to keep one American incarcerated for one year?

4. What name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?

5. Which group in the book was undone by the Superman radio show?

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