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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 child's name does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., say would indicate alienation from the black community?
(a) Madeline.
(b) Madison.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Logan.

2. On what religious holiday were the dictator of Romania and his wife executed?
(a) St. Valentine's Day.
(b) All Saint's Day.
(c) Easter.
(d) Christmas.

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

4. Which of the following is not a recorded consequence of Roe v. Wade?
(a) Fewer cases of infanticide.
(b) Faster spread of STDs.
(c) More instances of conception.
(d) Fewer shotgun marriages.

5. Which of the following is not among the universities listed as names chosen by parents in California in the 1990s?
(a) Princeton.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Stanford.
(d) Yale.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of this chapter, Levitt compares an aspiring parent to what equally deluded hypothetical figure from earlier in the book?

2. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?

3. What name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?

4. A Head Start teacher earns half as much annually as what?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

4. What determination do the authors make regarding parenting in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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