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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. When was the first known use of the term social capital?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1931.

2. Between the 1970s and 1990s, by what percent did church attendance fall among people under sixty?
(a) 10-20.
(b) 30-35.
(c) 5-10.
(d) 25-30.

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

4. In 1996, how many Americans voted in the election between Clinton, Dole, and Perot?
(a) 51.3 percent.
(b) 23.8 percent.
(c) 48.9 percent.
(d) 36.9 percent.

5. By how much did Greenpeace's membership drop when they stopped using direct-mail solicitation?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 70 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what period of time had the character of Americans' involvement with politics and government been transformed?

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. How much had states spent on "motor voter" registration?

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

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

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