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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. How much was spent on Presidential election campaigns in 1965?
(a) $18 million.
(b) $35 million.
(c) $28 million.
(d) $41 million.

2. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?
(a) 63.
(b) 81.
(c) 57.
(d) 79.

3. How many years did the Charity League of Dallas meet every Friday morning?
(a) 46.
(b) 39.
(c) 62.
(d) 57.

4. From what language do the terms "macher" and "schmoozer" come from?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Dutch.
(c) German.
(d) Russian.

5. During the last three hundred years, what percent of the American population has probably participated in congregations with some regularity?
(a) 15-30 percent.
(b) 20-40 percent.
(c) 10-15 percent.
(d) 35-50 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Americans were in the labor force in 1950?

2. In 1996, how many Americans voted in the election between Clinton, Dole, and Perot?

3. At the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans said that they definitely ate their evening meal as a family?

4. By November, 1998, how many members attended a heated contest for the president of the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP?

5. In the late twentieth century, how many workers belonged to unions?

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