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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What class range does the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study cover?
(a) Third grade through freshman year of high school.
(b) Pre-K through third grade.
(c) Kindergarten through fifth grade.
(d) First through eighth grade.

2. Judith Rich Harris claims in her book, THE NURTURE ASSUMPTION, that parental influence is generally overwhelmed by what?
(a) Peer pressure.
(b) Some unknown guiding instinct.
(c) Popular culture.
(d) Teachers.

3. Which of the following factors is revealed to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's parents regularly take him to museums.
(b) The child's parents regularly read to him.
(c) The child is adopted.
(d) The child is regularly spanked.

4. How do teachers most often cheat on standardized tests?
(a) They read the answers to the children.
(b) They allow children to have books out.
(c) They erase wrong answers.
(d) They never administer the test.

5. What comedic Hollywood icon does Levitt quote regarding honesty in this chapter?
(a) Soupy Sales.
(b) Buster Keaton.
(c) Stan Laurel.
(d) W.C. Fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many American children per year would be saved if parents childproofed their pools?

2. How does Paul Feldman view humanity as a result of his business records?

3. What is the average annual salary of a bottom-tier sumo wrestler?

4. What condition did Listerine claim to treat in 1920, increasing its sales dramatically?

5. In what country is the daycare service examined at the beginning of this chapter?

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