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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to a quoted study in FREAKONOMICS, by what percentage is an aborted child more likely to have grown up in poverty than one that is born?
(a) 100%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 75%.
(d) 30%.

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

3. What do the authors acknowledge that objective thinking will not do?
(a) Lead to interesting conclusions.
(b) Improve one's life.
(c) Make friends.
(d) Be profitable.

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

5. 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.

6. What do the authors try to determine throughout FREAKONOMICS in order to understand people's motivations?
(a) Incentives.
(b) Belief systems.
(c) Fears.
(d) Basic needs.

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 child must be the mother's first.
(d) The mother must not work until kindergarten.

8. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents speak English at home.
(b) The child has many books in his home.
(c) The child's parents have a high socioeconomic status.
(d) The child is regularly spanked.

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

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

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

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

13. What child's name does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., say would indicate alienation from the black community?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Logan.
(c) Madison.
(d) Madeline.

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

15. To what satirist do the authors liken their own abortion-violent crime claim?
(a) Vonnegut.
(b) Pope.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Swift.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the authors claim is the essential function of a gun?

2. To what technology do the authors compare the system they use for determining regression analysis?

3. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?

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

5. How did the Chicago Public School system deal with the confusion of allowing students to choose any school in the city?

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