Project:    A Common Sense Quiz
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Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
- First & last & in alphabetical order by last name
- Include only members who are present
Indicate the date:  ________________________ 
Indicate the name of the class:   _______________
Indicate the name of the Project:  ______________
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allotted time
 
Name of the Project: A Common Sense Quiz

Use common sense to decide whether the following statements are true or false.

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1.  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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2.  People who live in the southern part of the US drink less alcohol than people who live in the North
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3.  Before the 1996 Welfare Reform Act placed time limits on welfare, most poor people were chronically dependent upon welfare
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4.  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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5.  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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6.  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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7.  Now that we have civil rights laws, the gap between black & white family income in the US has considerably narrowed
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8.  Juvenile delinquents generally commit the same kinds of crime as adult criminals
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9.  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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