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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main reason that the price of crack cocaine began to drop in the Nineties?
(a) Junkies began to switch to heroin.
(b) Tainted shipments arrived in the US.
(c) Dealers undercut each other's prices.
(d) Its potency began to deteriorate.

2. What do the authors claim is the essential function of a gun?
(a) To hunt and defend.
(b) To kill someone.
(c) To disrupt the natural order.
(d) To alter the image of its owner.

3. What language is most strongly represented in the list of the top 20 white girl's names that signify high-education?
(a) Arabic.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) French.
(d) German.

4. The correlative educational effect seen in children whose mothers were over 30 at the birth is contingent upon what?
(a) The child cannot be born prematurely.
(b) The child must be the mother's first.
(c) The mother must be college-educated.
(d) The mother must not work until kindergarten.

5. According to the authors, what must one balance to reach a new perspective?
(a) Skepticism and faith.
(b) Ego and uncertainty.
(c) Intelligence and intuition.
(d) Hope and fear.

6. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?
(a) Singapore.
(b) Uzbekhistan.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Switzerland.

7. How many American children per year would be saved if parents childproofed their pools?
(a) 30.
(b) 250.
(c) 400.
(d) 175.

8. As of 2004, roughly how many fetuses have been aborted in America?
(a) 46 million.
(b) 72 million.
(c) 12 million.
(d) 37 million.

9. According to child-rearing "expert" L. Emmett Holt, what is a baby's daily exercise?
(a) Crying.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Rolling on the floor.
(d) Breastfeeding.

10. According to the authors, what would be a more reasonable educational concern than the black-white achievement gap?
(a) The good school-bad school gap.
(b) The America-Europe achievement gap.
(c) The rural-urban achievement gap.
(d) The white-Hispanic achivement gap.

11. Which former Supreme Court Justice do the authors quote at the end of the section on capital punishment?
(a) Warren Burger.
(b) Robert Renquist.
(c) Thurgood Marshall.
(d) Henry Blackmun.

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

13. Which of the following is not a recorded consequence of Roe v. Wade?
(a) Fewer cases of infanticide.
(b) Faster spread of STDs.
(c) More instances of conception.
(d) Fewer shotgun marriages.

14. What prominent talent agency did Zelman Moses found?
(a) Bret Adams.
(b) William Morris.
(c) CAA.
(d) Abrams.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?

2. Which pop singer do the authors mention as an example of a celebrity whose name has not caught on?

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

4. According to the authors, what does Freakonomics thinking not traffic in?

5. Which group generally tests highest?

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