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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many times a year are elite sumo tournaments held?
(a) Once.
(b) 10 times.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 6 times.

2. Which black politician's slim election victory indicates voters might have lied to pollsters?
(a) Cory Booker.
(b) Harold Ford, Jr.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) David Dinkins.

3. What unethical practice are Atlanta police discovered to have undertaken throughout the 1990s?
(a) Accepting kickbacks.
(b) Selling confiscated drugs.
(c) Racial profiling.
(d) Underreporting crime.

4. With what band did Sudhir Venkatesh tour as part of his sociological research?
(a) Rage Against the Machine.
(b) Public Enemy.
(c) The Allman Brothers.
(d) The Grateful Dead.

5. In what year did the Chicago Public School system begin widespread standardized testing?
(a) 2002.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1975.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two groups are the most discriminated against on Weakest Link?

2. Which of the following is not an alternate source of funding in the twentieth century?

3. According to Levitt, because something is correlated to something else does not imply what type of relationship between them?

4. In this chapter, Levitt mentions that the average American prostitute makes more than the average American what?

5. What event in California has allowed two Enron traders to jack up energy prices int he dialogue of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the day-cares of Haifa, Israel when a late-pickup fee is introduced?

2. How were predictions about violent crime in the Nineties incorrect?

3. Why is a real estate agent inclined to keep her own house on the market longer than her client's?

4. What does Paul Feldman learn about honesty from his bagel business?

5. What is important to women on dating sites?

6. What unorthodox theory do the authors offer regarding the drop in crime in the late 1990s?

7. How does the inclusion of a small monetary compensation affect blood donation in the 1970s?

8. How is this book different from other nonfiction books, according to the authors?

9. How is the organizational structure of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation similar to McDonald's?

10. What are the defining characteristics of conventional wisdom?

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