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By Ted Wagenaar and Earl Babbie. Each chapter of the Study Guide for Babbie's The Basics of Social Research 5e will contain chapter objectives, a chapter outline, a chapter summary, key terms with page numbers, matching exercises, true-false and multiple choice questions, discussion questions, and 4-6 exercises designed to reinforce the material learned in the text with examples from everyday life. Also included are the answers to the matching and multiple choice review questions, as well as a General Social Survey appendix.

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