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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many American children per year would be saved if parents childproofed their pools?
(a) 30.
(b) 175.
(c) 400.
(d) 250.

2. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?
(a) A young man in Liberia.
(b) A black child in 1960.
(c) An American serviceman in Iraq.
(d) A Black Gangster Disciple Nation soldier.

3. Who was Rudolph Giuliani's police commissioner often credited with reducing crime in New York in the Nineties?
(a) Bernard Kerik.
(b) William Bratton.
(c) Howard Safire.
(d) Ray Kelly.

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

5. What conservative American politician does Levitt cite as an example of a victim of the country's changing attitudes toward bigotry?
(a) Trent Lott.
(b) Jim Demint.
(c) Lindsay Graham.
(d) Tom Delay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which two cities does Levitt compare in his discussion of police population versus murder rate?

2. According to child-rearing "expert" L. Emmett Holt, what is a baby's daily exercise?

3. Informational asymmetry indicates the use of information for what?

4. What was the well-publicized theory that informed the new policing strategies in New York in the Nineties?

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

(see the answer key)

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