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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. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child attended Head Start.
(b) The child frequently watches television.
(c) The child's parents recently moved to a better neighborhood.
(d) The child has a low birth weight.

2. According to the authors, what must one balance to reach a new perspective?
(a) Intelligence and intuition.
(b) Hope and fear.
(c) Skepticism and faith.
(d) Ego and uncertainty.

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 snow leopard.
(b) The grey wolf.
(c) The spotted own.
(d) The humpbacked whale.

4. In the nineteenth century, what was the first state to make abortion illegal?
(a) Georgia.
(b) New York.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Tennessee.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which pop singer do the authors mention as an example of a celebrity whose name has not caught on?

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

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

4. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?

5. What is the main reason that the price of crack cocaine began to drop in the Nineties?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is name-choice an indicator of parenting?

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

7. What is regression analysis?

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

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

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

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