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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During what time was there explosive growth in union membership?
(a) During the Depression.
(b) During the Cold War.
(c) After World War II.
(d) During the New Deal.

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

4. In 1960, how many voting-age Americans went to the polls to choose between Kennedy and Nixon?
(a) 48.3 percent.
(b) 72.6 percent.
(c) 59.1 percent.
(d) 62.8 percent.

5. Compared to the rest of the population, how much less time did people who spent more time at work have to watch television?
(a) 17 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 41 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

6. By November, 1998, how many members attended a heated contest for the president of the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP?
(a) 57.
(b) 62.
(c) 48.
(d) 33.

7. What was the one democracy that had a lower voter turnout than the United States?
(a) Britain.
(b) Canada.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

8. What percent of individuals did Jeremy Toole believed received their social connections from the workplace?
(a) 60 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 70 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

9. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?
(a) Woody Allen.
(b) Sid Caesar.
(c) Bob Hope.
(d) Bill Cosby.

10. Between the 1970s and 1990s, by what percent did church attendance fall among people under sixty?
(a) 10-20.
(b) 5-10.
(c) 25-30.
(d) 30-35.

11. Who wrote in 1959 that "the ratio of political activists to the general population, and even the ratio of male activists to the male population, has generally increased over the past fifty years"?
(a) Robert E. Lane.
(b) Virginia Held.
(c) Daniel Bell.
(d) Rachel Carson

12. 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.

13. During what decades did giving in America increase to nearly 50 percent?
(a) 1933 to 1951.
(b) 1944 to 1960.
(c) 1960 to 1965.
(d) 1921 to 1942.

14. In the late twentieth century, how many more times would an American send a greeting card to a friend than a letter to the editor?
(a) 57.
(b) 35.
(c) 43.
(d) 28.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. When did something important happen to social bonds and civic engagement in America?

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

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