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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How many Americans were in the labor force in 1950?
(a) 28 percent.
(b) 32 percent.
(c) 45 percent.
(d) 59 percent.

7. What Chicago suburb was closely studied by urbanist William Whyte?
(a) Wonder Lake.
(b) Round Lake Beach.
(c) Park Forest.
(d) Aurora.

8. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?
(a) Personal communities.
(b) Communities of limited liability.
(c) Communities of one.
(d) Individual communities.

9. Of people who expected to move in five years, what percent were less likely to attend church, club meetings, volunteer or work on community projects?
(a) 10-15.
(b) 30-35.
(c) 40-45.
(d) 20-25.

10. By what year did it become a struggle for VFW Post 2378 in Berwyn, Illinois, to pay taxes on the post hall?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1974.
(d) 1999.

11. When did the membership of community involvement groups plateau?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1961.

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

13. By what percent did religious adherence grow steadily from 1776 to 1980?
(a) 59.
(b) 71.
(c) 62.
(d) 48.

14. What university studied the changes in personal behavior between 1957 and 1976?
(a) University of Colorado.
(b) University of Indiana.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Illinois.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1986-86 and 1998-99, how much of a decline was there in the number of average Americans who made new friends?

2. 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?

3. How many years did the Charity League of Dallas meet every Friday morning?

4. Who rode the "antiparty bandwagon" to national prominence in 1992?

5. What Agatha Christie book did Putnam mention in Chapter 10?

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