Deck 48: Sand Castles and Snake Pits

Question 1

Men from rural and urban communities who wandered from one part of the country to another in a fruitless search for work that did not exist were known as ______.

A) the homeless
B) the mentally ill
C) hobos
D) bums

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Compared to the present, homelessness in earlier times was considered a(n) ______ phenomenon.

A) transient
B) seismic
C) healthcare
D) unsightly

Answer 2

A

Question 3

According to the author, which two pieces of legislation had the greatest impact on the homeless situation in America?

A) The Anti-Insane Asylum Act and the Food Safety Act
B) The Health and Safety at Work Act and the Olmstead Act
C) The American with Disabilities Act and the Quality of Care Act
D) The Housing Act and the Community Mental Health Centers Act

Answer 3

D

Question 4

What was the effect of The Snake Pit on Americans' understanding of mental health?

A) It fell on deaf ears.
B) It increased awareness that madness was the result of demonic possession.
C) It woke people up to the experiences of men and women living in insane asylums.
D) It promised symptom relief for some of the worst mental ailments.

Question 5

Which statement reflects the response of the executive director of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Reform when asked about the mentally ill shooter in the Virginia Tech massacre?

A) "Guns must be controlled."
B) "College is very stressful."
C) "He was a stranger to himself."
D) "The system doesn't work very well."

Question 6

The problem of homelessness is best described as a product of ______.

A) a modern disease
B) poor professional monitoring
C) mental illness
D) failed social policy

Question 7

A mentally ill, homeless individual who receives treatment, stabilizes, and then returns to the community with no services, no follow-up, and no place to live is caught in the ______.

A) revolving door
B) cycle of violence
C) health care debacle
D) managed loop

Question 8

Which public policy initiative set urban renewal in motion?

A) Community Mental Health Centers Act of 1963
B) Olmstead v. L.C. (1999)
C) Housing Act of 1949
D) Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Question 9

According to the author, the primary cause of social problems such as mental health and homelessness is ______.

A) a system that does not work well
B) the influence of corporate America on the legislative process
C) too much government intervention
D) government attempts at reform

Question 10

Lillian Rubin, the author of this reading, was a well-known ______.

A) psychologist
B) sociologist
C) physician
D) psychiatrist

Question 11

Explain the large structural forces that have changed the face of homelessness.

Question 12

Define urban renewal. How did this negatively impact the poor?

Question 13

Briefly summarize patients' rights movements that began in the 1960s.

Question 14

Describe what happened to the Community Mental Health Centers Act.

Question 15

Name two ways to help deinstitutionalized patients make a more or less successful transition to life outside the hospital.