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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 name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?
(a) Tempestt.
(b) Septima.
(c) Metress.
(d) Tamera.

2. According to the authors, what does Freakonomics thinking not traffic in?
(a) Policy.
(b) Morality.
(c) Product endorsement.
(d) False hope.

3. The correlative educational effect seen in children whose mothers were over 30 at the birth is contingent upon what?
(a) The child cannot be born prematurely.
(b) The child must be the mother's first.
(c) The mother must be college-educated.
(d) The mother must not work until kindergarten.

4. According to the authors, what must one balance to reach a new perspective?
(a) Skepticism and faith.
(b) Hope and fear.
(c) Ego and uncertainty.
(d) Intelligence and intuition.

5. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents recently moved to a better neighborhood.
(b) The child attended Head Start.
(c) The child frequently watches television.
(d) The child has a low birth weight.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Eighties movie comedy was instrumental in the popularity of the name Madison?

2. Why did pro-gun advocate John R. Lott create a female pseudonym?

3. What was the well-publicized theory that informed the new policing strategies in New York in the Nineties?

4. According to a quoted study in FREAKONOMICS, by what percentage is an aborted child more likely to have grown up in poverty than one that is born?

5. Who was the hypothetical black boy in the Chapter 5 comparison?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the quality of life of an aborted child different from one that is born?

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

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

4. Why did the influence of crack cocaine decline in the 1990s?

5. By what rational do Levitt and Dubner reason that even a cynical person would not consider abortion a reasonable deterrent to crime?

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

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

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

9. How is name-choice an indicator of parenting?

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

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