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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 6, Informal Social Connections.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1960, how many voting-age Americans went to the polls to choose between Kennedy and Nixon?
(a) 59.1 percent.
(b) 62.8 percent.
(c) 72.6 percent.
(d) 48.3 percent.

2. In 1997, what percent of college freshmen indicated no religious preference?
(a) 14.
(b) 37.
(c) 9.
(d) 28.

3. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?
(a) Less than 5 percent.
(b) Less than 15 percent.
(c) Less than 10 percent.
(d) Less than 20 percent.

4. What publication ran an article about the challenge of free time and Americans in 1964?
(a) Time.
(b) Newsweek.
(c) Wall Street Journal.
(d) New Yorker.

5. 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"?
(a) Robert E. Lane.
(b) Rachel Carson
(c) Daniel Bell.
(d) Virginia Held.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?

2. How many more long distance calls to family and friends would women make than men?

3. Where was the bridge club located that Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?

4. Where in America has there been the most religious disengagement?

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

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