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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By the 1990s, what percent of Americans identified themselves as having "no religion"?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 14.
(d) 21.

2. Where was a close-knit Jewish neighborhood that celebrated Purim by visits and bringing gifts of fruit and pastries?
(a) Rhode Island.
(b) Vermont.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Maine.

3. When was the first known use of the term social capital?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1931.

4. In 1995 how many Americans volunteered?
(a) 71 million.
(b) 93 million.
(c) 86 million.
(d) 68 million.

5. When was the last year of the baby boom generation?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1961.

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

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

8. 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) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 50.
(d) 20.

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

10. How many members did the bridge club in Chapter 1 have in 1990?
(a) 52.
(b) 40-odd.
(c) 18.
(d) 25 or so.

11. During what period of time had the character of Americans' involvement with politics and government been transformed?
(a) Last 3 decades of the twentieth century.
(b) Last 2 decades of the twentieth century.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

12. Sociologist Wade Clark Roof estimated that 2/3 of all boomers reared in religious traditions dropped out. How many returned to religion?
(a) Less than 1/5.
(b) Less than 1/3.
(c) Less than 1/4.
(d) Less than 1/2.

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

14. Where in America has there been the most religious disengagement?
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) North.
(d) West.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many more hours did married couples average in a work week in 1998 than they did in 1969?

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

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

4. 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?

5. What Chicago suburb was closely studied by urbanist William Whyte?

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