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Chapter Four	Chapter Five	Chapter Six
Chapter Seven	Chapter Eight	Chapter Nine
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Gender and Sexuality	Media and Image	Society of Excess
Science: Its Human Face

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Additional Activities, Parts I & II

Comparison Questions, Part III

Essay Questions, Part III

Section One	Section Two	Section Three
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The Active Reader, 2e: Chapter 3

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the 'Submit my answers' button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:

In meta-analyses ________.
a) empirical research is not used
b) the analysis is similar to other review essays
c) authors extract information from prior research
d) answers B and C
e) all of the above

Question 2:

Qualitative ways of generating data include ________.
a) focus groups
b) forums
c) unstructured interviews
d) all of the above

Question 3:

Why do authors incorporate visuals, like tables and graphs, into essays and reports?
a) They are required in academic reports.
b) They break up the monotony of text
c) To present raw data
d) all of the above

Question 4:

In what section of a report are tables, graphs, and charts commonly found?
a) discussion
b) methodology
c) introduction
d) results

Question 5:

Which of the following is a type of graph?
a) matrix
b) meta-analysis
c) line
d) answers B and C

Question 6:

What category below is a subcategory of Method?
a) subjects
b) measures
c) procedures
d) answers A and B
e) all of the above

Question 7:

Type A essays are common in the sciences.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Type B essays are common in the sciences.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Type C essays are common in the social sciences.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Tables and graphs are the same thing.
a) True
b) False