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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 23, Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what percent did religious adherence grow steadily from 1776 to 1980?
(a) 59.
(b) 62.
(c) 71.
(d) 48.

2. In what state did the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occur?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. In the late twentieth century, how many workers belonged to unions?
(a) 39.2 percent.
(b) 21.9 percent.
(c) 14.1 percent.
(d) 11.8 percent.

4. What ages of women in the 1980s and 1990s felt the most harried?
(a) 30-61.
(b) 18-43.
(c) 35-65.
(d) 25-54.

5. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?
(a) Less than 20 percent.
(b) Less than 15 percent.
(c) Less than 5 percent.
(d) Less than 10 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many members belonged to the American Medical Association in 1995?

2. From what language do the terms "macher" and "schmoozer" come from?

3. By the time the average baby boomer reached age 16, how many hours of television had he watched?

4. During what time was there explosive growth in union membership?

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

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