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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 16, Introduction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What publication ran an article about the challenge of free time and Americans in 1964?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) New Yorker.
(d) Wall Street Journal.

2. What percent of the decline of engagement might have been caused by electronic entertainment:
(a) 41.
(b) 25.
(c) 34.
(d) 18.

3. In 1995 how many Americans volunteered?
(a) 93 million.
(b) 86 million.
(c) 68 million.
(d) 71 million.

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

5. In Gallup Polls in the 1990s, how many workers said they enjoyed work hours more than hours when they were not at work?
(a) 24 percent.
(b) 16 percent.
(c) 38 percent.
(d) 9 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?

3. What Chicago suburb was closely studied by urbanist William Whyte?

4. What percent of individuals did Jeremy Toole believed received their social connections from the workplace?

5. Compared to the rest of the population, how much less time did people who spent more time at work have to watch television?

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