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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 14, From Generation to Generation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1999, what was the average age of those who were members of the American Contract Bridge League?
(a) 58.
(b) 71.
(c) 83.
(d) 64.

2. At the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans said that they definitely ate their evening meal as a family?
(a) 34 percent.
(b) 23 percent.
(c) 46 percent.
(d) 17 percent.

3. In what year were Americans split about fifty-fifty on the issue whether society was as upright morally as it has been in the past?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1961.

4. How many organizations did Putnam find listed in the "World Alamanc"?
(a) 584.
(b) 1,839.
(c) 937.
(d) 2,380.

5. When did Bill Clinton become president?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1996.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?

2. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?

3. In 1985, of the 205 national citizens groups in existence, how many had chapters to which individual members belonged and paid dues?

4. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

5. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?

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