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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the 1950s and 1960s, what percent of workers belonged to professional associations and other economic organizations (other than unions)?
(a) 8-10 percent.
(b) 5-7 percent.
(c) 11-15 percent.
(d) 3-4 percent.

2. According to sociologist Robert Wuthnow, what percent of Americans claimed to be "currently involved in [a] small group that [met] regularly and [provided] support or caring for those who particpate[d] in it"?
(a) 20.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 50.

3. In surveys, how many Americans said that they believed in immortality?
(a) 5 out of 6.
(b) 3 out of 4.
(c) 4 out of 5.
(d) 2 out of 3.

4. Where was the bridge club located that Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Marshalltown, Iowa.
(b) Hastings, Michigan.
(c) Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania.
(d) Thornton, Colorado.

5. In 1998, how many people believed that people lived as honestly and morally as they used to?
(a) Between 5 and 10 percent.
(b) Between 20 and 30 percent.
(c) Between 25 and 35 percent.
(d) Between 15 and 20 percent.

6. What crop needed to be harvested in the quote at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Wheat.
(b) Soybeans.
(c) Hay.
(d) Corn.

7. In the 1990s, how many women worked outside the home?
(a) 3 out of 4.
(b) 1 out of 2.
(c) 2 out of 3.
(d) 4 out of 5.

8. Between 1986-86 and 1998-99, how much of a decline was there in the number of average Americans who made new friends?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/4.

9. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?
(a) 49 percent.
(b) 12 percent.
(c) 26 percent.
(d) 38 percent.

10. When were members playing regularly in the bridge club Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1963.

11. Where were groups of working-class housewives most likely to play cards frequently?
(a) Rockies.
(b) Great Plains.
(c) East coast.
(d) West coast.

12. 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) Rachel Carson
(b) Robert E. Lane.
(c) Daniel Bell.
(d) Virginia Held.

13. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?
(a) 79.
(b) 57.
(c) 63.
(d) 81.

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

15. When was the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP established?
(a) 1934.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1923.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a strike by air traffic controllers?

2. How much had states spent on "motor voter" registration?

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

4. For how long did the Jim Crow laws depress voting rates?

5. In the late twentieth century, how many workers belonged to unions?

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