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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what percentage did violent crime drop between 1995 and 2000?
(a) 50%.
(b) 25%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 15%.

2. 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) Coal miner.
(b) Deep sea fisherman.
(c) Timber cutter.
(d) Big city police officer.

3. What does Levitt ask of his reader at the end of the introduction?
(a) Money.
(b) Objectivity.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Patience.

4. Which of the following factors is revealed not to have a correlative effect on a child's school performance?
(a) The child's family is intact.
(b) The child's parents are involved in the PTA.
(c) The child had a low birthweight.
(d) The child has highly educated parents.

5. To what satirist do the authors liken their own abortion-violent crime claim?
(a) Vonnegut.
(b) Swift.
(c) Pope.
(d) Voltaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group in the book was undone by the Superman radio show?

2. What is the central action of economics?

3. Which economist and philosopher does Levitt cite at the end of his introduction?

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

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

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