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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What ratio does a pro-life individual give to fetuses:newborns in terms of intrinsic worth?
(a) 2:1.
(b) 1:2.
(c) 1:1.
(d) This person could not assign a value.

3. Which of the following is a unifying attribute of parental factors that affect child development?
(a) They occur before the child is born.
(b) They can be changed with proper education of new parents.
(c) They can be medically qualitifed.
(d) They involve monetary income.

4. To what technology do the authors compare the system they use for determining regression analysis?
(a) A switchboard.
(b) An assembly line.
(c) A graphing calculator.
(d) A computer spreadsheet.

5. In what country is every adult male issued a gun by the government to keep at home?
(a) Singapore.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Uzbekhistan.
(d) Switzerland.

6. What final factor do the authors say affects the way a child develops?
(a) Random fate.
(b) Peer pressure.
(c) God.
(d) Drugs.

7. What contradictory names does Robert Lane give his two sons in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Winner and Loser.
(b) Pretty and Ugly.
(c) Good and Bad.
(d) Hope and Despair.

8. At the beginning of the Epilogue, the authors reiterate what point made in the Prologue?
(a) Experts follow a personal agenda.
(b) The book has no unifying theme.
(c) Conventionally wisdom is often wrong.
(d) Objectivity is key to understanding the world.

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

10. Which of the following is not a commodity that exists as a low-income version of a more high-end item?
(a) The station wagon.
(b) Crack cocaine.
(c) The name Tiffany.
(d) Nylon stockings.

11. Which name is charted in this section as having ten common variations?
(a) Jasmine.
(b) Tiffany.
(c) Brandi.
(d) Tabitha.

12. For what year are the authors attempting to forecast when they list possible future popular names at the end of the chapter?
(a) 2050.
(b) 2025.
(c) 2015.
(d) 2040.

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

14. In what year did the drop in New York violent crime begin in the 1990s?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1992.

15. How many names from the top ten most popular black girls names from 1990 do not appear on the 2000 list?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What negative consequence do the authors say derives from unconventional thinking?

3. What language is most strongly represented in the list of the top 20 white girl's names that signify high-education?

4. Which group generally tests highest?

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

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