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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 14, From Generation to Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?
(a) Less than 10 percent.
(b) Less than 5 percent.
(c) Less than 20 percent.
(d) Less than 15 percent.

2. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?
(a) 12 percent.
(b) 49 percent.
(c) 26 percent.
(d) 38 percent.

3. How many more long distance calls to family and friends would women make than men?
(a) 10-20 percent.
(b) 30-40 percent.
(c) 20-30 percent.
(d) 5-10 percent.

4. How many civic associations were members of the generation born in the 1920s liable to belong to compared to the generation born in the late 1960s?
(a) 30 percent more.
(b) Three time as many.
(c) 50 percent more.
(d) Twice as many.

5. At the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans said that they definitely ate their evening meal as a family?
(a) 17 percent.
(b) 34 percent.
(c) 23 percent.
(d) 46 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Roper polls in the 1980s and 1990s, how many American reported going out for entertainment?

2. In the 1940s, how likely was it that a deck of playing cards would be found in American homes?

3. In 1985, of the 205 national citizens groups in existence, how many had chapters to which individual members belonged and paid dues?

4. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?

5. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?

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