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Mission, should you decide to accept it:
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of the Project: A Common Sense Quiz
Use common sense to decide whether the following statements
are true or false.
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Making contraceptives available ot teenagers through school clinics will
push them to be more sexually active because they won't have to worry about
pregnancy
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People who live in the southern part of the US drink less alcohol than
people who live in the North
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Before the 1996 Welfare Reform Act placed time limits on welfare, most
poor people were chronically dependent upon welfare
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When a disaster is forecast, the best predictor of whether people will
plan & take actions to protect themselves is whether or not they believe
the forecast
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The higher the percentage of people in a population who drink, the higher
the percentage of alcoholics there will be in that population
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During the days immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,
American were unified in their confidence that a military response to the
attacks would be effective
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Now that we have civil rights laws, the gap between black & white family
income in the US has considerably narrowed
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Juvenile delinquents generally commit the same kinds of crime as adult
criminals
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Overcrowding in American cities is an important reason for the much higher
urban crime rates in the last three decades as compared with earlier decades
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| 10.
The incidence of homosexuality in the US today is no greater relative to
the population than it was 40 or 50 years ago
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