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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. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?
(a) Alabama.
(b) Tennessee.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

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

3. In 1996, how many Americans voted in the election between Clinton, Dole, and Perot?
(a) 51.3 percent.
(b) 36.9 percent.
(c) 23.8 percent.
(d) 48.9 percent.

4. When comparing voting records, how many years had it been since voter turnout was as bad as it was in 1996?
(a) 164.
(b) 65.
(c) 98.
(d) 15.

5. How many Americans moved each year according to Putnam?
(a) 2 out of 3.
(b) 1 in 4.
(c) 1 in 5.
(d) 4 out of 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the membership of community involvement groups plateau?

2. In 1998, how many people believed that people lived as honestly and morally as they used to?

3. What ages of women in the 1980s and 1990s felt the most harried?

4. What Nobel Prize winning economist believed that every commercial transaction carried with it an element of trust?

5. For men in the years between 1965 and 1995, how much more time did they have for leisure activities per week?

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