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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. What percentage of the vote does an incumbent candidate lose on average if he spends half as much money in his second campaign?
(a) 1%.
(b) 5%.
(c) 7%.
(d) 3%.

2. In 1964, what was a hauntingly simple cause of infant death in the American black community?
(a) Colic.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) Diarrhea.
(d) Elephantisis.

3. By what percentage did violent crime drop between 1995 and 2000?
(a) 60%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 15%.
(d) 25%.

4. Which of the following is not a group persecuted by the Klan in the twentieth century?
(a) Union organizers.
(b) Immigrants.
(c) Jews.
(d) Methodists.

5. Which of the following is not affected by the rank of a sumo wrestler?
(a) His food.
(b) His earnings.
(c) His entourage.
(d) His housing accomodations.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did JT run the Black Gangster Disciple Nation before being promoted to the Board of Directors?

2. When do 7-7 sumo wrestlers begin losing matches most often?

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

4. In 1960s and 1970s Chicago, what never seemed to happen to street gang members?

5. Why did Oscar Danilo Blandon claim that he sold such extensive quantities of crack cocaine in the late 1970s?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the authors show that money spent does not affect election results?

2. How does Venkatesh get his hands on JT's financial records?

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

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

5. Why had Chicago public schools already been standardized testing for years before No Child Left Behind?

6. What example do the authors use at the end of the chapter to show that people will cheat if they know they won't be caught?

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

8. How does terminology help real estate agents set a price for a house?

9. What is the nature of discrimination on The Weakest Link?

10. What mindset do the authors ask the reader to take at the end of the introduction?

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