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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 name did Ms. Bledsoe intend to give her daughter, Temptress?
(a) Tempestt.
(b) Septima.
(c) Tamera.
(d) Metress.

2. What now-infamous governor tried to introduce a plan to mail everyone in the state a book every month from birth to kindergarten?
(a) Rod Blagojevich.
(b) Sarah Palin.
(c) Elliot Spitzer.
(d) Mark Sanford.

3. How did the Chicago Public School system deal with the confusion of allowing students to choose any school in the city?
(a) They limited choices to a four mile radius.
(b) They ran a lottery.
(c) They augmented the buildings of the most successful schools.
(d) They had everyone choose a list of ten schools.

4. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2050.
(c) 2025.
(d) 2040.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term did James Alan Fox use to describe the spike in crime he predicted in the mid 1990s?

2. What Eighties movie comedy was instrumental in the popularity of the name Madison?

3. Which group in the book was undone by the Superman radio show?

4. Which is a Hebrew name that the authors suggest may catch on en masse in the years to come?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

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

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

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

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

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