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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Joan Ganz Cooney’s first television program?
(a) Blue’s Clues.
(b) Court of Reason.
(c) Sesame Street.
(d) Law and Order.

2. Who became director the of the New York City Subway system at the height of the crime problems, according to the author in Chapter 4?
(a) David Gunn.
(b) Mark Alpert.
(c) Darnell McGee.
(d) Barbara Flagg.

3. Early research for Sesame Street showed that flashing lights and bright colors do not do what on their own?
(a) Lead to seizures in children.
(b) Attract a child’s attention.
(c) Teach children anything.
(d) Damage children’s eyes.

4. What refers to a social psychological phenomenon where individuals do not offer any means of help in an emergency situation to the victim when other people are present?
(a) The bystander effect.
(b) The escape effect.
(c) The freedom effect.
(d) The silence effect.

5. One of the studies from Chapter 4 tested a large group of schoolchildren in order to pick out an honest group among them. Schoolchildren who did not cheat in earlier studies did cheat in the same tests given how much later?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Darnell McGee admitted sexual relations with how many people after he knew he carried HIV?

2. Paul Revere is someone the author considers to be what?

3. According to the author in Chapter 3, Sesame Street limited itself by appealing to what?

4. Early research for Sesame Street showed that children watch what they understand and look away when?

5. When the New York City Subway system came under new directorship at the height of crime problems, the first area of change became what?

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