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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sesame Street premiered on what television station?
(a) NPR.
(b) BBC.
(c) CBS.
(d) NET.

2. When the New York City Subway system came under new directorship at the height of crime problems, the second area of change was what?
(a) Drinking on subways.
(b) Random drug searches.
(c) Fare beating.
(d) Graffiti.

3. Darnell McGee is known to have infected over how many people with HIV?
(a) 300.
(b) 2.
(c) 30.
(d) 100.

4. Philip Zimbardo is a social scientist at what university?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. Who assembled the team that developed Blue's Clues?
(a) Ed Palmer.
(b) Barbara Flagg.
(c) Todd Kessler.
(d) Mark Alpert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author cite as a prototypical maven who is "almost pathologically helpful"?

2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood initially sold how many copies in hardcover?

3. Bernie Goetz’s parents were immigrants from where?

4. Who developed an eye movement sensor used in research for Sesame Street?

5. What does the author consider to be the second of the three rules of epidemics?

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