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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) Kindergarten through fifth grade.
(b) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(c) First through eighth grade.
(d) Pre-K through third grade.

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

5. A quoted study in the text suggest that the United States would have to pay 46 billion dollars to save what animal from extinction?
(a) The humpbacked whale.
(b) The snow leopard.
(c) The spotted own.
(d) The grey wolf.

6. What does Levitt credit with the rise of distinctly black names in the twentieth century?
(a) The northern migration.
(b) The Black Power movement.
(c) The rise of hip hop.
(d) The Voting Rights Act.

7. Which is a Hebrew name that the authors suggest may catch on en masse in the years to come?
(a) Oona.
(b) Zev.
(c) Aviva.
(d) Zofia.

8. By how many percentage points did unemployment drop in America drop during the sudden curb of violent crime in the Nineties?
(a) 0.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 8.

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

10. 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) Crack cocaine.
(d) The station wagon.

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

12. What name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?
(a) Tempestt.
(b) Metress.
(c) Tamera.
(d) Septima.

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

14. At the beginning of the Epilogue, the authors reiterate what point made in the Prologue?
(a) Objectivity is key to understanding the world.
(b) Conventionally wisdom is often wrong.
(c) The book has no unifying theme.
(d) Experts follow a personal agenda.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a recorded consequence of Roe v. Wade?

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

3. What service was offered in exchange for firearms in a California gun buyback?

4. What prominent talent agency did Zelman Moses found?

5. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?

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