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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. 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 20 and 30 percent.
(c) Between 5 and 10 percent.
(d) Between 25 and 35 percent.

2. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Bill Cosby.
(c) Woody Allen.
(d) Sid Caesar.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1999, what was the average age of those who were members of the American Contract Bridge League?

2. At the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans said that they definitely ate their evening meal as a family?

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

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

5. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

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