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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward - Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to the degree to which a correct forecast of a system's state can be made either qualitatively or quantitatively?
(a) Index.
(b) Predictability.
(c) Security.
(d) Recession.

2. Where did politicians try to deal with the level of pollution by limiting driving based on license plate numbers, according to the author in Chapter 2?
(a) Pyongyang.
(b) London.
(c) New York.
(d) Mexico City.

3. What are negative results which occur while trying to achieve a goal for the common good?
(a) Abstract incentives.
(b) Unknown incentives.
(c) Ghost incentives.
(d) Perverse incentives.

4. According to the author in Chapter 2, the average annual income is what in the location where black rhinoceros horns are worth much on the black market?
(a) $2,500.
(b) $8,700.
(c) $6,000.
(d) $1,000.

5. Arab members of OPEC alarmed the developed world when they used the "oil weapon" during what war by implementing oil embargoes?
(a) The Yom Kippur War.
(b) The Torah War.
(c) The Gaza War.
(d) The Jerusalem War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive arguments?

2. What is a situation that involves losing one quality or aspect of something in return for gaining another quality or aspect?

3. According to the author in Chapter 2, a horn from a black rhinoceros can fetch what amount on the black market?

4. In what year did Douglas Ivester tell his sales team to pass free Coca-Cola around as the Berlin Wall toppled?

5. In economics and sociology, what refers to any factor that enables or motivates a particular course of action or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives?

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