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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. Out of every dollar spent for leisure in 1929, how many cents went to club and fraternal dues?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

2. 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) Three time as many.
(b) Twice as many.
(c) 50 percent more.
(d) 30 percent more.

3. In what year were Americans split about fifty-fifty on the issue whether society was as upright morally as it has been in the past?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1961.

4. Compared to the rest of the population, how much less time did people who spent more time at work have to watch television?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 17 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 41 percent.

5. When was the PTA founded?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late twentieth century, how many more times would an American send a greeting card to a friend than a letter to the editor?

2. When did Bill Clinton become president?

3. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, by what fraction did unlisted phone numbers grow?

4. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?

5. When was Charles Tilly born?

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