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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. Who was the hypothetical black boy in the Chapter 5 comparison?
(a) Stephen Levitt.
(b) Roland G. Fryer, Jr.
(c) Barack Obama.
(d) J.T.

2. To what satirist do the authors liken their own abortion-violent crime claim?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Pope.
(c) Swift.
(d) Vonnegut.

3. By how many percentage points did unemployment drop in America drop during the sudden curb of violent crime in the Nineties?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 4.

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

5. Where does most of the data regarding children's names come from?
(a) New York.
(b) Texas.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the number one white girl name that indicates low education in a parent?

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

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

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

5. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

6. What caveat of hope do Dubner and Levitt give regarding parenting at the end of the book?

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

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

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

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

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