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What explains the relationship between social class and mental illness?
 
  a. Greater social stress associated with lower-class life may cause mental illness.
  b. The onset of mental illness may cause people to lose their jobs and move downwards in the social classes.
  c. Sociologists disagree as to whether lower-class life causes mental illness or the onset of mental illness causes people to move down in social class.
  d. There is no relationship between social class and mental illness.

Question 2

The most commonly reported forms of mental illness in the U.S. are:
 
  a. major depression and problems with alcohol.
  b. obsessive compulsive disorder and depression.
  c. schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
  d. alcohol and drug abuse.

Question 3

Approximately what percentage of adults in the United States experiences some diagnosable form of mental illness in any given year?
 
  a. 5
  b. 10
  c. 30
  d. 50

Question 4

All of the following are barriers to healthcare for older minority adults EXCEPT:
 
  a. they are more likely to be poor than older whites.
  b. they were less likely to have held jobs that gave them health care than whites.
  c. they are more likely to have cultural and communication barriers with physicians than whites.
  d. they are more likely to have cultural and communication barriers with staff at nursing homes than whites.

Question 5

The average life expectancy for an African American man is _______ than that of the average white non-Hispanic male.
 
  a. 2 years more
  b. 2 years less
  c. 6 years less
  d. 10 years less

Answer to q. 1

c

Answer to q. 2

a

Answer to q. 3

c

Answer to q. 4

d

Answer to q. 5

c

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