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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what organization do the authors immediately compare the Black Gangster Disciple Nation?
(a) The Ku Klux Klan.
(b) General Motors.
(c) McDonald's.
(d) The American military.

2. Which of the following is not one of the three types of incentives?
(a) Moral.
(b) Economic.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Social.

3. How many times a year are elite sumo tournaments held?
(a) 10 times.
(b) Once.
(c) 3 times.
(d) 6 times.

4. According to normal Weakest Link strategy, who will players vote off in later rounds?
(a) The weakest players.
(b) Better players.
(c) Themselves.
(d) No one.

5. What percentage of people actually pays for Paul Feldman's wares?
(a) 50%.
(b) 12%.
(c) 100%,
(d) 87%.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, what is the easiest way to ensure your will not get a good response to your dating profile?

2. What is the central action of economics?

3. By how much did the homicide rate among young black males increase over the first five years of the crack boom?

4. Why does Levitt believe there are few violent criminals in the end of the twentieth century?

5. In this chapter, Levitt mentions that the average American prostitute makes more than the average American what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Stetson Kennedy use the information he compiled about the Ku Klux Klan?

2. How did the introduction of crack cocaine reverse a trajectory in American black culture?

3. What example do the authors use at the end of the chapter to show that people will cheat if they know they won't be caught?

4. Why would some winning sumo wrestlers throw a match?

5. How did Sudhir Venkatesh become acquainted with the Black Gangster Disciple Nation?

6. From what did the Ku Klux Klan derive its power in the twentieth century?

7. Why would a foot soldier risk death or arrest in a gang that pays him less than minimum wage for his labor?

8. How is the organizational structure of the Black Gangster Disciple Nation similar to McDonald's?

9. What unorthodox theory do the authors offer regarding the drop in crime in the late 1990s?

10. What are the defining characteristics of conventional wisdom?

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