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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 20, Health and Happiness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much more common is philanthropy and volunteering in American than in other countries?
(a) Three times as common.
(b) Twice as common.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 1/2.

2. Where in America has there been the most religious disengagement?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) South.
(d) West.

3. When did divorce rates accelerate?
(a) 1960s to mid-1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s to mid-1980s.
(d) 1980s.

4. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?
(a) 49 percent.
(b) 12 percent.
(c) 26 percent.
(d) 38 percent.

5. When was "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" written?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1961.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1948.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much higher were crime rates in cities than in small towns or rural areas?

2. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?

3. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?

4. According to a study by Sampson and Groves, which country found that organizational participation and social ties made a difference in reducing crime levels?

5. What small, Italian American community had been studied for nearly 40 years beginning in the 1950s?

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