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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By 1992, how many work places had "quality circles"?
(a) 56 percent.
(b) 67 percent.
(c) 41 percent.
(d) 39 percent.

3. When do most scholars agree that church membership was most likely at an all-time high?
(a) 1930s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1950s.

4. By what year did some estimate that 35 million Americans played bridge?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1955.

5. How many years did the Charity League of Dallas meet every Friday morning?
(a) 39.
(b) 46.
(c) 62.
(d) 57.

6. In 1985, of the 205 national citizens groups in existence, how many had chapters to which individual members belonged and paid dues?
(a) Less than 1/3.
(b) Less than 1/4.
(c) Less than 3/4.
(d) Less than 1/2.

7. In the late twentieth century, how many workers belonged to unions?
(a) 21.9 percent.
(b) 14.1 percent.
(c) 39.2 percent.
(d) 11.8 percent.

8. How much was spent on Presidential election campaigns in 1965?
(a) $18 million.
(b) $35 million.
(c) $41 million.
(d) $28 million.

9. In 1966, what percent of Americans rejected the view that "the people running the country don't really care what happens to you"?
(a) 56.
(b) 82.
(c) 66.
(d) 73.

10. During the last three hundred years, what percent of the American population has probably participated in congregations with some regularity?
(a) 35-50 percent.
(b) 10-15 percent.
(c) 15-30 percent.
(d) 20-40 percent.

11. 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) Individual communities.
(c) Communities of one.
(d) Personal communities.

12. When was there a strike by air traffic controllers?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1963.

13. For how many years did the Vassar alumnae of Washington, D.C., have an annual book sale?
(a) 47.
(b) 64.
(c) 51.
(d) 38.

14. In what year were Americans split about fifty-fifty on the issue whether society was as upright morally as it has been in the past?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1952.

15. When was the PTA founded?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many organizations did Putnam find listed in the "World Alamanc"?

2. By November, 1998, how many members attended a heated contest for the president of the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP?

3. How many Americans moved each year according to Putnam?

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

5. When was the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP established?

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