1. Howard Levanthal distributed pamphlets to seniors at what university, according to the author in Chapter 3?
(a) Berkeley University.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Stanford University.
(d) Harvard University.

2. What was Joan Ganz Cooney’s first television program?
(a) Blue’s Clues.
(b) Sesame Street.
(c) Court of Reason.
(d) Law and Order.

3. When did Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood first hit the New York Times bestseller lists?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1998.

4. The first bestseller list on which Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood appeared was what?
(a) The Seattle Times Bestseller List.
(b) The New York Times Bestseller List.
(c) The Boston Book Club Bestseller List.
(d) The Northern California Independent Bookseller’s List.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was adapted to film in what year?

3. Unlike Sesame Street, which tested a third of its episodes, the Blue's Clues research team field tested every episode how many times?

4. The young men who attempted to mug Bernie Goetz were from where?

5. According to the author’s sources, how many patients visited Baltimore’s sexually transmitted disease clinics in the year from 1990-1991?

(see the answer key)

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