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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 11, Pressures of Time and Money.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What publication ran an article about the challenge of free time and Americans in 1964?
(a) New Yorker.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Time.
(d) Wall Street Journal.

2. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?
(a) People in their 20s.
(b) People in their 30s.
(c) People over 50.
(d) People under 45.

3. Who rode the "antiparty bandwagon" to national prominence in 1992?
(a) Pat Buchanan.
(b) Howard Dean.
(c) Ross Perot.
(d) Denny Lane.

4. Compared to the rest of the population, how much less time did people who spent more time at work have to watch television?
(a) 17 percent.
(b) 41 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

5. In Chapter 5, what percent of corporate executives said that they encourage their employees to become involved in community service?
(a) 92.
(b) 84.
(c) 77.
(d) 64.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the last year of the baby boom generation?

3. Where was a close-knit Jewish neighborhood that celebrated Purim by visits and bringing gifts of fruit and pastries?

4. Where were groups of working-class housewives most likely to play cards frequently?

5. In what year were Americans split about fifty-fifty on the issue whether society was as upright morally as it has been in the past?

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