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

2. Between 1970 and 1998, by how much did the number of full-service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fall?
(a) 1/6.
(b) 1/8.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/4.

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

4. Sociologist Wade Clark Roof estimated that 2/3 of all boomers reared in religious traditions dropped out. How many returned to religion?
(a) Less than 1/5.
(b) Less than 1/4.
(c) Less than 1/2.
(d) Less than 1/3.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When were members playing regularly in the bridge club Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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