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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 do the authors acknowledge that objective thinking will not do?
(a) Be profitable.
(b) Lead to interesting conclusions.
(c) Make friends.
(d) Improve one's life.

2. What do the authors believe will be the most likely result of your reading FREAKONOMICS?
(a) You will take up economics.
(b) You will promptly forget about it.
(c) You will become angry.
(d) You will ask more questions.

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

4. In what year did the drop in New York violent crime begin in the 1990s?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1996.

5. What does Levitt credit with the rise of distinctly black names in the twentieth century?
(a) The rise of hip hop.
(b) The Black Power movement.
(c) The Voting Rights Act.
(d) The northern migration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By how many percentage points did unemployment drop in America drop during the sudden curb of violent crime in the Nineties?

3. How many names from the top ten most popular black girls names from 1990 do not appear on the 2000 list?

4. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why do the authors reason that a woman who has her first child later in life will produce a higher-achieving child?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do the authors explain the correlation between number of books and achievement?

10. What is regression analysis?

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