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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Philip Zimbardo conduct his prison study?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1976.

2. Where was Gaeton Dugas from?
(a) Denmark.
(b) The United States.
(c) Canada.
(d) Great Britain.

3. Philip Zimbardo instructed the mock guards in his prison study to do what?
(a) Maintain order at any cost.
(b) Interrogate the prisoners.
(c) Water-board the prisoners.
(d) Conduct random drug tests.

4. In one study described in Chapter 4, a group of seminary students prepared to give a lecture on what parable?
(a) Abraham and Peter.
(b) The good Samaritan.
(c) Cain and Abel.
(d) The parting of the Red Sea.

5. 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 freedom effect.
(b) The escape effect.
(c) The silence effect.
(d) The bystander effect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What professor from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health discusses the needle exchange program in Baltimore in Chapter 6?

2. On what date does the author describe a young boy overhearing news of the British invasion in Chapter 2?

3. According to the author in Chapter 5, the Methodist movement became epidemic in England and North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, tipping from 20,000 to how many followers in the U.S. in the 1780s?

4. What imposes automatic punishment for infractions of a stated rule with the intention of eliminating undesirable conduct?

5. Philip Zimbardo is a social scientist at what university?

(see the answer key)

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