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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 final factor do the authors say affects the way a child develops?
(a) Drugs.
(b) God.
(c) Peer pressure.
(d) Random fate.

2. Which of the following is not a commodity that exists as a low-income version of a more high-end item?
(a) Nylon stockings.
(b) The name Tiffany.
(c) The station wagon.
(d) Crack cocaine.

3. A quoted study in the text suggest that the United States would have to pay 46 billion dollars to save what animal from extinction?
(a) The grey wolf.
(b) The humpbacked whale.
(c) The spotted own.
(d) The snow leopard.

4. What Eighties movie comedy was instrumental in the popularity of the name Madison?
(a) Stripes.
(b) The Money Pit.
(c) Splash.
(d) St. Elmo's Fire.

5. The correlative educational effect seen in children whose mothers were over 30 at the birth is contingent upon what?
(a) The child cannot be born prematurely.
(b) The child must be the mother's first.
(c) The mother must not work until kindergarten.
(d) The mother must be college-educated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?

2. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?

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

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

5. Which of the following is not among the universities listed as names chosen by parents in California in the 1990s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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