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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. Why did pro-gun advocate John R. Lott create a female pseudonym?
(a) To place on his own petitions.
(b) To solicit sex online.
(c) To have a tax credit for a dependant.
(d) To defend his theories.

2. What is the only television show to regularly appear on the top ten watched lists of both black and white viewers?
(a) The Cosby Show.
(b) Saturday Night Live.
(c) CBS Evening News.
(d) Monday Night Football.

3. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents regularly take him to museums.
(b) The child is regularly spanked.
(c) The child's parents regularly read to him.
(d) The child is adopted.

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

5. What do the authors believe will be the most likely result of your reading FREAKONOMICS?
(a) You will ask more questions.
(b) You will promptly forget about it.
(c) You will take up economics.
(d) You will become angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former Supreme Court Justice do the authors quote at the end of the section on capital punishment?

2. According to the authors, what does Freakonomics thinking not traffic in?

3. How much does it cost to keep one American incarcerated for one year?

4. What do the authors acknowledge that objective thinking will not do?

5. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What policy recommendations do the authors make regarding their theories?

2. How does Ceausescu create an opposite ripple effect in Romania than what occurs in America at the same time?

3. What theory guided Rudolph Giuliani and William Bratton in their policing strategies of the Nineties?

4. What action do the authors of FREAKONOMICS think a reader might take after finishing the book?

5. What situation in Chicago in 1980 offers the authors a chance to review the effect of education on children's development?

6. According to Dubner and Levitt, what is the essential function of the gun?

7. How do the authors explain the above contradiction in fears?

8. What is the history behind the emergence of distinctly black names in America?

9. How does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., figure into the book both as a source and a topic?

10. What study is cited involving names and job hiring?

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