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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 was the name of the Communist dictator of Romania who banned abortion in 1966?
(a) Havel.
(b) Ceausescu.
(c) Honnecker.
(d) Walesa.

2. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?
(a) Asians.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Hispanics.
(d) Arab-Americans.

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

4. Which of the following is a unifying attribute of parental factors that affect child development?
(a) They can be changed with proper education of new parents.
(b) They occur before the child is born.
(c) They involve monetary income.
(d) They can be medically qualitifed.

5. What final factor do the authors say affects the way a child develops?
(a) Random fate.
(b) Drugs.
(c) Peer pressure.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Levitt credit with the rise of distinctly black names in the twentieth century?

3. Which pop singer do the authors mention as an example of a celebrity whose name has not caught on?

4. Which figure in the book became a Harvard Fellow after doing field research in South Chicago?

5. In the authors' hypothetical comparison of two boys' lives, where does the poor black boy grow up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What national trends regarding crime in the nineties belie the relevance of the Giuliani-Bratton strategy?

4. How do the authors address the moral outrage their theories may elicit?

5. What hypothetical comparison do the authors create between two boys' upbringings?

6. What point to Dubner and Levitt make regarding guns and swimming pools?

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

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

9. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

10. How does Robert Lane's child-naming scheme work out?

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