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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. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?
(a) People under 45.
(b) People in their 30s.
(c) People over 50.
(d) People in their 20s.

2. In Roper polls in the 1980s and 1990s, how many American reported going out for entertainment?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 1/3.

3. For men in the years between 1965 and 1995, how much more time did they have for leisure activities per week?
(a) 10.2 hours.
(b) 7.9 hours.
(c) 8.4 hours.
(d) 9.6 hours.

4. Between 1970 and 1998, by how much did the number of full-service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fall?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/6.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/8.

5. In 1998, how many people believed that people lived as honestly and morally as they used to?
(a) Between 15 and 20 percent.
(b) Between 25 and 35 percent.
(c) Between 5 and 10 percent.
(d) Between 20 and 30 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what year did some estimate that 35 million Americans played bridge?

3. In what pastoral state did attendance at town meetings fall by nearly half between the early 1970s and the late 1990s?

4. How many organizations did Putnam find listed in the "World Alamanc"?

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

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