Due to the pollution and other environmental problems in East. St. Louis, the children of this city have one of the highest rates of which of the following diseases?
a. emphysema
b. asthma
c. leukemia
d. AIDS
Question 2According to a report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, East St. Louis, Illinois, can be described as
a. the most distressed small city in America.
b. situationally beautiful, with scenic vistas overlooking the Mississippi River, but haunted by chronic drug problems.
c. a dilapidated city whose future is looking up.
d. a growing suburb of its larger city to the west, St. Louis, with all of the problems inherent in a rapidly expanding city.
Question 3From reading this article, which of the following would best describe being atheist in American today?
a. It is an accepted identity by most, but not all, Americans, and atheists feel little stigma related to this identity.
b. It remains a highly controversial identity, and atheists feel a great deal of stigma about choosing this lifestyle.
c. It is so highly stigmatized that atheists believe that they can only tell other atheists about this identity, lest they get excommunicated from their friends and family.
d. Atheists feel as if many people are beginning to doubt their own religious beliefs, and increasingly their friends and family are embracing atheism as well.
Question 4When atheists first began to tell significant others about their new identity, this experience can best be described in which of the following ways?
a. Excruciatingly painful, as these people did not accept their atheist identity and made them feel terrible about giving about religion.
b. As commonplace, in which their telling others that they were atheists was met by a series of nonchalant and uncaring reactions by most others.
c. As liberating, a positive experience that tended to produce greater confidence in what they decided and a greater stake in that new identity.
d. There was no one way that atheists experienced their coming out, and all three ways above were seen as examples of ways atheists told others about their new identity.
Question 5Smith compares telling others about their atheist identity to which of the following groups?
a. Coming out as gay
b. Telling parents about their first sexual encounters
c. Marijuana smokers
d. None of the above
Question 6Generally speaking, among atheists, as their beliefs in religion and God waned,
a. their belief in other supernatural beings increased to take its place.
b. they turned to a variety of different religious beliefs before they gave up on religion altogether.
c. a belief in scientific thinking and a rejection of anything supernatural increased.
d. they were made to feel very guilty about their lack of belief but they did not feel it was necessary to hide it..
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