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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. Which group in the book was undone by the Superman radio show?
(a) The Sumo Wrestling League.
(b) The Ku Klux Klan.
(c) The Black Gangster Disciple Nation.
(d) The Chicago Public School system.

2. What does Levitt credit with the rise of distinctly black names in the twentieth century?
(a) The Voting Rights Act.
(b) The northern migration.
(c) The Black Power movement.
(d) The rise of hip hop.

3. What child's name does Roland G. Fryer, Jr., say would indicate alienation from the black community?
(a) Hunter.
(b) Logan.
(c) Madeline.
(d) Madison.

4. Which ethnicity generally tests better than whites in the ECLS?
(a) Hispanics.
(b) Blacks.
(c) Arab-Americans.
(d) Asians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a commodity that exists as a low-income version of a more high-end item?

2. Who does Levitt point out has a nearly quadrupled likelihood of dying every year than a death row inmate has of being executed?

3. A Head Start teacher earns half as much annually as what?

4. Why did pro-gun advocate John R. Lott create a female pseudonym?

5. On average, what percentage of the student population is black in a school that an ECLS white child attends?

Short Essay Questions

1. What connection exists between celebrity and popular names?

2. What policy recommendations do the authors make regarding their theories?

3. How is name-choice an indicator of parenting?

4. What national trends regarding crime in the nineties belie the relevance of the Giuliani-Bratton strategy?

5. What hypothetical comparison do the authors create between two boys' upbringings?

6. How is the quality of life of an aborted child different from one that is born?

7. According to Dubner and Levitt, what is the essential function of the gun?

8. To what extent does every chapter in FREAKONOMICS involve a closed system?

9. In what two ways do larger prisons affect less crime in a community?

10. How does Robert Lane's child-naming scheme work out?

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