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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 23, Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many nonprofit organizations were there per 1,000 inhabitants in Vermont?
(a) 5.8.
(b) 4.3.
(c) 3.6.
(d) 6.7.

2. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?
(a) Communities of limited liability.
(b) Communities of one.
(c) Personal communities.
(d) Individual communities.

3. In Roper polls in the 1980s and 1990s, how many American reported going out for entertainment?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 1/2.
(c) 1/4.
(d) 2/3.

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

5. How many indicators of formal and informal community networks and social trust were studied across the U.S. to rate the average social capital of various states?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Agatha Christie book did Putnam mention in Chapter 10?

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

3. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?

4. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?

5. When do most scholars agree that church membership was most likely at an all-time high?

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