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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. According to Peter Sandman, what is the defining attribute of irrational fears that we have?
(a) They are covered regularly on TV.
(b) They all involve death.
(c) They are out of our control.
(d) They have happened ot someone we know.

2. What do the authors claim is the essential function of a gun?
(a) To kill someone.
(b) To disrupt the natural order.
(c) To hunt and defend.
(d) To alter the image of its owner.

3. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(b) Kindergarten through fifth grade.
(c) Pre-K through third grade.
(d) First through eighth grade.

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?
(a) 30%.
(b) 50%.
(c) 100%.
(d) 75%.

5. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's family is intact.
(b) The child's parents are involved in the PTA.
(c) The child had a low birthweight.
(d) The child has highly educated parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?

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

3. Which of the following is a unifying attribute of parental factors that affect child development?

4. What is the only television show to regularly appear on the top ten watched lists of both black and white viewers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do the authors determine about the social migration of names?

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

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

9. In what two ways do larger prisons affect less crime in a community?

10. To what extent does every chapter in FREAKONOMICS involve a closed system?

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