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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?
(a) A young man in Liberia.
(b) An American serviceman in Iraq.
(c) A Black Gangster Disciple Nation soldier.
(d) A black child in 1960.

2. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?
(a) 2025.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2040.
(d) 2015.

3. 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) Bloodbath.
(d) Cataclysm.

4. Which of the following is not a commodity that exists as a low-income version of a more high-end item?
(a) Nylon stockings.
(b) The name Tiffany.
(c) The station wagon.
(d) Crack cocaine.

5. What does the ECLS show about the black-white achievement gap for students just entering school?
(a) It is nearly nonexistent.
(b) It is larger than expected.
(c) It has not changed since 1964.
(d) It is slowly narrowing.

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

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

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

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

10. Which of the following is a unifying attribute of parental factors that affect child development?
(a) They can be medically qualitifed.
(b) They occur before the child is born.
(c) They involve monetary income.
(d) They can be changed with proper education of new parents.

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

12. In a per-hour study of likelihood of dying in a plane versus a car crash, how do they compare?
(a) There is no way to figure this.
(b) You are more likely to die in a plane.
(c) You are just as likely to die in either a plane or car.
(d) You are more likely to die in a car.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As of 2004, roughly how many fetuses have been aborted in America?

2. What two first names were place on identical resumes in the name study of this chapter?

3. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?

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

5. To what satirist do the authors liken their own abortion-violent crime claim?

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