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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) Policy.
(b) Morality.
(c) False hope.
(d) Product endorsement.

2. In the nineteenth century, what was the first state to make abortion illegal?
(a) New York.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Tennessee.

3. What do the authors believe will be the most likely result of your reading FREAKONOMICS?
(a) You will promptly forget about it.
(b) You will ask more questions.
(c) You will become angry.
(d) You will take up economics.

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

5. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?
(a) Free-for-all.
(b) Armageddon.
(c) Cataclysm.
(d) Bloodbath.

6. Who was Rudolph Giuliani's police commissioner often credited with reducing crime in New York in the Nineties?
(a) Ray Kelly.
(b) Bernard Kerik.
(c) Howard Safire.
(d) William Bratton.

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

8. What now-infamous governor tried to introduce a plan to mail everyone in the state a book every month from birth to kindergarten?
(a) Rod Blagojevich.
(b) Sarah Palin.
(c) Elliot Spitzer.
(d) Mark Sanford.

9. To what traditionally Jewish name did a New York Sikh change his name upon immigrating to the U.S.?
(a) Katz.
(b) Rubin.
(c) Weiner.
(d) Goldberg.

10. According to child-mortality statistics, what is ten times more dangerous than a gun?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A squirt gun.
(c) A television set.
(d) A plastic bag.

11. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?
(a) 20%.
(b) 6%.
(c) 13%.
(d) 16%.

12. What was the well-publicized theory that informed the new policing strategies in New York in the Nineties?
(a) The borken window theory.
(b) The repeat offender theory.
(c) The community development theory.
(d) The empowerment-disempowerment theory.

13. Which of the following is not an action the authors regularly recommend in order to reach unexpected conclusions?
(a) Ask many questions.
(b) Remain objective.
(c) Examine incentives.
(d) Move to a major city.

14. Who was the hypothetical black boy in the Chapter 5 comparison?
(a) Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
(b) Stephen Levitt.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) J.T.

15. How much does it cost to keep one American incarcerated for one year?
(a) $35,000.
(b) $25,000.
(c) $50,000.
(d) $10,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which figure in the book became a Harvard Fellow after doing field research in South Chicago?

2. What often catalyzes a big-city mayor's decision to hire more police?

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

4. Who was the hypothetical white boy in the Chapter 5 comparison?

5. Which of the following is not an unusual name given to a child in FREAKONOMICS?

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