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

2. When did the membership of community involvement groups plateau?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1961.

3. What did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?
(a) 3/4.
(b) About 1/3.
(c) 2/3.
(d) About 1/2.

4. How many more hours did married couples average in a work week in 1998 than they did in 1969?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. What small, Italian American community had been studied for nearly 40 years beginning in the 1950s?
(a) Coventry, Rhode Island.
(b) Rome Point, Rhode Island.
(c) Milano, Pennsylvania.
(d) Roseto, Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Nobel Prize winning economist believed that every commercial transaction carried with it an element of trust?

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

3. During what period of time had the character of Americans' involvement with politics and government been transformed?

4. According to sociologist Robert Wuthnow, what percent of Americans claimed to be "currently involved in [a] small group that [met] regularly and [provided] support or caring for those who particpate[d] in it"?

5. Who said, "It is a medium of entertainment that permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."

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