2. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?
(a) People under 45.
(b) People in their 20s.
(c) People in their 30s.
(d) People over 50.

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

4. On average, how many times did Americans who regularly attended both church and clubs volunteer?
(a) 23.
(b) 9.
(c) 17.
(d) 31.

5. How much had states spent on "motor voter" registration?
(a) $58 million.
(b) $100 million.
(c) $79 million.
(d) $45 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. How many members belonged to the American Medical Association in 1995?

3. In Chapter 5, what percent of corporate executives said that they encourage their employees to become involved in community service?

4. Sociologist Wade Clark Roof estimated that 2/3 of all boomers reared in religious traditions dropped out. How many returned to religion?

5. By the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans were in the labor force?

(see the answer key)

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