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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage commission does a real estate broker generally take from a home sale?
(a) 6%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 12%.
(d) 4%.

2. Which two philosophers does Levitt cite who subscribe to the belief that people are inherently good?
(a) Plato and Descartes.
(b) Socrates and Adam Smith.
(c) John Locke and Hegel.
(d) Heidegger and John Stuart Mill.

3. The authors compare the risk of a crack dealer in JT's gang to the most dangerous job in America. What is that job?
(a) Big city police officer.
(b) Deep sea fisherman.
(c) Coal miner.
(d) Timber cutter.

4. According to child-rearing "expert" L. Emmett Holt, what is a baby's daily exercise?
(a) Rolling on the floor.
(b) Crying.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Breastfeeding.

5. What Supreme Court case involved Norma McCorvey as plaintiff?
(a) Brown v. Board of Education.
(b) Roe v. Wade.
(c) Gibbons v. Ogden.
(d) Plessy v. Ferguson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of people actually pays for Paul Feldman's wares?

2. In the media, what term is given to the new, more dangerous violent criminal in the 1990s?

3. When do 7-7 sumo wrestlers begin losing matches most often?

4. Which of the following is not a bit of specialty information Levitt says a real estate owner claims to have?

5. By how many percentage points did unemployment drop in America drop during the sudden curb of violent crime in the Nineties?

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