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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?
(a) 13%.
(b) 20%.
(c) 16%.
(d) 6%.

2. With what band did Sudhir Venkatesh tour as part of his sociological research?
(a) The Grateful Dead.
(b) Public Enemy.
(c) Rage Against the Machine.
(d) The Allman Brothers.

3. How does Paul Feldman view humanity as a result of his business records?
(a) People are basically honest.
(b) People never lie.
(c) People are deceptive and entitled.
(d) People become less honest after achieving success.

4. Which of the following is an action that Gyges undertakes in the story that ends Chapter 1?
(a) He sleeps for twenty years.
(b) He murders the king.
(c) He feeds an entire village.
(d) He starts a war.

5. Which of the following is not affected by the rank of a sumo wrestler?
(a) His food.
(b) His earnings.
(c) His housing accomodations.
(d) His entourage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do teachers most often cheat on standardized tests?

2. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?

3. In the authors' hypothetical comparison of two boys' lives, where does the poor black boy grow up?

4. Within a single office, who cheats Paul Feldman most?

5. At the end of this chapter, Levitt compares an aspiring parent to what equally deluded hypothetical figure from earlier in the book?

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