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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Roger Horchow’s profession?
(a) Aerobics instructor.
(b) Flight attendant.
(c) Schoolteacher.
(d) Catalog entrepreneur.

2. What is a trivia game that rests on the assumption that any individual involved in the Hollywood, California film industry can be linked through his or her film roles to actor Kevin Bacon?
(a) “Seven Degrees of Separation.”
(b) “Six Degrees of Separation.”
(c) “Ten Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”
(d) “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.”

3. Where is Lois Weisberg from?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Pittsburgh.

4. What leading epidemiologist theorizes that the syphilis epidemic in Baltimore was caused by the diminishing of public housing?
(a) John Bartlett.
(b) Darnell McGee.
(c) John Potterat.
(d) John Zenilman.

5. What does the author consider to be the second of the three rules of epidemics?
(a) The Law of the Many.
(b) The Stickiness Factor.
(c) The Law of the Few.
(d) The Power of Context.

Short Answer Questions

1. A well-known saying states that twenty percent of the people do what percent of the work?

2. What does the author consider to be the third of the three rules of epidemics?

3. What does the author consider to be the first of the three rules of epidemics?

4. What researcher from Syracuse University showed that of the three major news outlets, Peter Jennings showed a bias in the presidential elections of the 1980s?

5. How many people admitted to witnessing the murder of Kitty Genovese?

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