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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. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Memphis.
(d) Chicago.

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

3. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?
(a) 50 percent.
(b) 60 percent.
(c) 70 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

4. Which state had the highest rate of murders?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Florida.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Louisiana.

5. At the end of the twentieth century, how many Americans said that they definitely ate their evening meal as a family?
(a) 17 percent.
(b) 23 percent.
(c) 46 percent.
(d) 34 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city launched a path-breaking education reform in the late 1980s that had parent participation as a cornerstone?

2. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?

3. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

4. By the 1990s, what percent of Americans identified themselves as having "no religion"?

5. What percent of the total decline of engagement might have been due to pressures of time and money?

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