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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. What book by William Julius Wilson written in 1987 did Putnam mention in Chapter 18?
(a) There Goes the Neighborhood.
(b) The Truly Disadvantaged.
(c) More Than Just Race.
(d) When Work Disappears.

2. In the last two decades of the twentieth century, by what fraction did unlisted phone numbers grow?
(a) By 1/2.
(b) By 2/3.
(c) By 1/3.
(d) By 1/4.

3. Who sang, "get by with a little help from our friends"?
(a) Elvis Presley.
(b) Beatles.
(c) Chuck Berry.
(d) Rolling Stones.

4. How many more long distance calls to family and friends would women make than men?
(a) 20-30 percent.
(b) 5-10 percent.
(c) 10-20 percent.
(d) 30-40 percent.

5. In 1999, what percent of Americans owned their own home?
(a) 54.
(b) 82.
(c) 71.
(d) 67.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1990s, how many Americans moved?

2. During the 1950s and 1960s, what percent of workers belonged to professional associations and other economic organizations (other than unions)?

3. What crop needed to be harvested in the quote at the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. How many Americans in any given year suffered from major depression?

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

(see the answer key)

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