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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 class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) Kindergarten through fifth grade.
(b) Pre-K through third grade.
(c) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(d) First through eighth grade.

2. Which of the following is not among the universities listed as names chosen by parents in California in the 1990s?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

3. What basketball player's recollections does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., cite in his paper "The Economics of 'Acting White'"?
(a) Michael Jordan.
(b) Magic Johnson.
(c) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
(d) Charles Barkley.

4. According to the authors, what would be a more reasonable educational concern than the black-white achievement gap?
(a) The America-Europe achievement gap.
(b) The white-Hispanic achivement gap.
(c) The rural-urban achievement gap.
(d) The good school-bad school gap.

5. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child had a low birthweight.
(b) The child's parents are involved in the PTA.
(c) The child's family is intact.
(d) The child has highly educated parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to child-mortality statistics, what is ten times more dangerous than a gun?

2. What child's name does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., say would indicate alienation from the black community?

3. What often catalyzes a big-city mayor's decision to hire more police?

4. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?

5. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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