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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 4, Religious Participation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What university studied the changes in personal behavior between 1957 and 1976?
(a) University of Michigan.
(b) University of Colorado.
(c) University of Indiana.
(d) University of Illinois.

2. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Woody Allen.
(c) Bill Cosby.
(d) Sid Caesar.

3. When did party finances skyrocket?
(a) 1980s and 1990s.
(b) 1970s and 1980s.
(c) 1940s and 1950s.
(d) 1960s and 1970s.

4. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?
(a) Doubled.
(b) Four time as many.
(c) Tripled.
(d) Twice as many.

5. When did the membership of community involvement groups plateau?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1954.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the one democracy that had a lower voter turnout than the United States?

2. Who wrote in 1959 that "the ratio of political activists to the general population, and even the ratio of male activists to the male population, has generally increased over the past fifty years"?

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

4. For how many years did the Vassar alumnae of Washington, D.C., have an annual book sale?

5. When was the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP established?

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