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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 20, Health and Happiness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many indicators of formal and informal community networks and social trust were studied across the U.S. to rate the average social capital of various states?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

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

3. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?
(a) Individual communities.
(b) Communities of one.
(c) Communities of limited liability.
(d) Personal communities.

4. In 1999, what percent of Americans owned their own home?
(a) 67.
(b) 82.
(c) 71.
(d) 54.

5. In what states did Philip Hammond survey churchgoers?
(a) Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio.
(b) Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada.
(c) North Carolina, Massachusetts, Ohio, and California.
(d) Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, FLorida.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Which state had the least number of murders?

4. How much would an individual's chances of poor health increase if he moved from a state with a wealth of social capital to a state with little social capital?

5. How much higher were crime rates in cities than in small towns or rural areas?

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