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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. In this chapter, Levitt mentions that the average American prostitute makes more than the average American what?
(a) Reverend.
(b) Firefighter.
(c) Architect.
(d) Schoolteacher.

2. What is Arne Duncan's first course of action after the CPS researchers release their report on cheating?
(a) He fires 12 teachers.
(b) He freezesall standardized testing in Chicago.
(c) He buries the report.
(d) He readministers tests.

3. Researchers determining whether teachers are encouraging cheating on standardized tests observe classes over how many years?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. Which two philosophers does Levitt cite who subscribe to the belief that people are inherently good?
(a) John Locke and Hegel.
(b) Socrates and Adam Smith.
(c) Heidegger and John Stuart Mill.
(d) Plato and Descartes.

5. By how much did the homicide rate among young black males increase over the first five years of the crack boom?
(a) It quadrupled.
(b) It increased by half.
(c) It tripled.
(d) It doubled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stetson Kennedy's pseudonym at the Pittsburgh Courier?

2. Which of the following is not a bit of specialty information Levitt says a real estate owner claims to have?

3. Which of the following is a major reason that the turf war affected JT's profits adversely?

4. According to James Alan Fox in 1995, what is the minimum rise in violent crime to be expected in the next decade?

5. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would some winning sumo wrestlers throw a match?

2. What are the defining characteristics of conventional wisdom?

3. According to the authors, what motivates everyone?

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

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

6. From what did the Ku Klux Klan derive its power in the twentieth century?

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

8. Why is information crime so difficult to catch?

9. What is information asymmetry?

10. How have attitudes toward public bigotry changed in recent years?

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