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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 was the well-publicized theory that informed the new policing strategies in New York in the Nineties?
(a) The borken window theory.
(b) The empowerment-disempowerment theory.
(c) The repeat offender theory.
(d) The community development theory.

2. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?
(a) Asians.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Arab-Americans.
(d) Hispanics.

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

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

5. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?
(a) Singapore.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Uzbekhistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. A quoted study in the text suggest that the United States would have to pay 46 billion dollars to save what animal from extinction?

2. At the beginning of the Epilogue, the authors reiterate what point made in the Prologue?

3. Which group generally tests highest?

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

5. What contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is regression analysis?

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

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