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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What final factor do the authors say affects the way a child develops?
(a) Drugs.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) God.
(d) Random fate.

2. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child has highly educated parents.
(b) The child had a low birthweight.
(c) The child's family is intact.
(d) The child's parents are involved in the PTA.

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) Cataclysm.
(d) Bloodbath.

4. According to Peter Sandman, what is the defining attribute of irrational fears that we have?
(a) They all involve death.
(b) They are covered regularly on TV.
(c) They have happened ot someone we know.
(d) They are out of our control.

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

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

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

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

9. Which group in the book has an organizational structure similar to McDonald's?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) The Black Gangster Disciple Nation.
(c) The Chicago Public School System.
(d) The Sumo Wrestling League.

10. In the authors' hypothetical comparison of two boys' lives, where does the poor black boy grow up?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Bronx.
(c) Daytona Beach.
(d) Phoenix.

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

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 car.
(c) You are more likely to die in a plane.
(d) You are just as likely to die in either a plane or car.

13. Why did pro-gun advocate John R. Lott create a female pseudonym?
(a) To defend his theories.
(b) To place on his own petitions.
(c) To solicit sex online.
(d) To have a tax credit for a dependant.

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

15. What is the number one white girl name that indicates low education in a parent?
(a) Tonya.
(b) Mercedes.
(c) Angel.
(d) Tabatha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. A quoted study in the text suggest that the United States would have to pay 46 billion dollars to save what animal from extinction?

3. On what religious holiday were the dictator of Romania and his wife executed?

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

5. In the nineteenth century, what was the first state to make abortion illegal?

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