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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 claim is the essential function of a gun?
(a) To hunt and defend.
(b) To kill someone.
(c) To disrupt the natural order.
(d) To alter the image of its owner.

2. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?
(a) Free-for-all.
(b) Cataclysm.
(c) Bloodbath.
(d) Armageddon.

3. Which name is charted in this section as having ten common variations?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Tabitha.
(c) Brandi.
(d) Tiffany.

4. As of 2004, roughly how many fetuses have been aborted in America?
(a) 37 million.
(b) 12 million.
(c) 46 million.
(d) 72 million.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?

2. In what year did the drop in New York violent crime begin in the 1990s?

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

4. Which group generally tests highest?

5. According to the authors, what must one balance to reach a new perspective?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. By what rational do Levitt and Dubner reason that even a cynical person would not consider abortion a reasonable deterrent to crime?

8. How do the authors explain the above contradiction in fears?

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

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

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