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Question #1
Sheryl was diagnosed with bipolarity when she was a teenager. She’s hesitant to tell her friends, and tries her best to hide her diagnosis from her coaches, teachers, and employers, since she’s seen other people with the illness be discriminated against on account of it. Bipolarity is an example of a(n):
A.   Contested illness
B.   Withdrawn illness
C.   Untreatable illness
D.   Stigmatized illness
Question #2
Epidemiology is:
A.   The study of the process that changes “bad” behavior into “sick” behavior
B.   The study of how people manage issues of health and illness, disease and disorder, and healthcare for both the sick and the healthy
C.   The study of the social process that normalizes “sick” behavior
D.   The study of the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases
Question #3
Drake lives in Great Britain, where the British government owns and operates the country’s health care system. This is an example of ____:
A.   Individual mandates
B.   Socialized medicine
C.   Limited healthcare
D.   Private healthcare
Question #4
A sociologist is studying how the population of certain countries influences and affects the population and environment of other neighboring countries. This sociologist is most likely a:
A.   Conflict theorist
B.   Symbolic interactionist
C.   Feminist
D.   Structural functionalist
Question #5
What is one way the people of the United States, and the world, are reaching and abusing the Earth’s carrying capacity?
A.   We show little concern about contaminating water with our garbage and waste.
B.   We spend money ejecting trash into outer space.
C.   We eat animals when we should really only eat plants which are much more renewable.
D.   We have created parks and protected forested areas, sometimes in vain.

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