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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 contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Winner and Loser.
(b) Pretty and Ugly.
(c) Hope and Despair.
(d) Good and Bad.

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

3. In the authors' hypothetical comparison of two boys' lives, where does the poor black boy grow up?
(a) Bronx.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Daytona Beach.

4. What is the only television show to regularly appear on the top ten watched lists of both black and white viewers?
(a) Monday Night Football.
(b) The Cosby Show.
(c) CBS Evening News.
(d) Saturday Night Live.

5. What often catalyzes a big-city mayor's decision to hire more police?
(a) A visit from the President.
(b) A high-profile murder.
(c) A large public event.
(d) An upcoming election.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language is most strongly represented in the list of the top 20 white girl's names that signify high-education?

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

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

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

5. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What action do the authors of FREAKONOMICS think a reader might take after finishing the book?

2. What is regression analysis?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

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