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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) Good and Bad.
(b) Pretty and Ugly.
(c) Winner and Loser.
(d) Hope and Despair.

2. A Head Start teacher earns half as much annually as what?
(a) A trash collector.
(b) A McDonald's server.
(c) A public school teacher.
(d) A timber cutter.

3. What do the authors try to determine throughout FREAKONOMICS in order to understand people's motivations?
(a) Basic needs.
(b) Belief systems.
(c) Fears.
(d) Incentives.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to child-rearing "expert" L. Emmett Holt, what is a baby's daily exercise?

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

3. 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?

4. What is the approximate ratio of abortions:murders in America as stated at the end of the chapter?

5. What do the authors claim is the essential function of a gun?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What hypothetical comparison do the authors create between two boys' upbringings?

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

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

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

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

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

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