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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In 1997, what percent of college freshmen indicated no religious preference?
(a) 37.
(b) 9.
(c) 14.
(d) 28.

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

10. When did something important happen to social bonds and civic engagement in America?
(a) Last half of the century.
(b) Last 1/3 of the century.
(c) Last 2/3 of the century.
(d) First half of the century.

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

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

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

14. By 1999, what was the average age of those who were members of the American Contract Bridge League?
(a) 71.
(b) 58.
(c) 83.
(d) 64.

15. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?
(a) People under 45.
(b) People in their 30s.
(c) People in their 20s.
(d) People over 50.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Roper polls in the 1980s and 1990s, how many American reported going out for entertainment?

2. How many of the small groups that Americans participated in were Sunday school classes, prayer fellowships, Bible study groups, and other church-related groups?

3. During the last three hundred years, what percent of the American population has probably participated in congregations with some regularity?

4. For men in the years between 1965 and 1995, how much more time did they have for leisure activities per week?

5. What crop needed to be harvested in the quote at the beginning of Chapter 8?

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