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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "It is a medium of entertainment that permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
(a) E. E. Cummings.
(b) Conrad Aiken.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) Frank Bidart.

2. What state ranked 9th in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?
(a) New York.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Connecticut.

3. Researchers at what university discovered that people with more diverse social ties got fewer colds?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Carnegie Mellon University.
(d) Yale.

4. Who wrote a book profiling the heroic World War II generation that got mixed reviews from critics, but was a runaway best-seller?
(a) Barbara Walters.
(b) Tom Brokaw.
(c) Katie Couric.
(d) Walter Cronkite.

5. How long had studies been conducted that showed that small schools tended to outperform large schools?
(a) 50.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

6. In what country did Putnam and several colleagues investigate regional government?
(a) France.
(b) Italy.
(c) Spain.
(d) Portugal.

7. When did Bill Clinton become president?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1992.

8. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 70 percent.
(c) 60 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

9. In 1998, what percent of American adults were married?
(a) 45.
(b) 56.
(c) 37.
(d) 61.

10. Until 1870, how many inventions had been recognized by the U.S. Patent Office?
(a) 133,000.
(b) 98,000.
(c) 118,000.
(d) 57,000.

11. In 1959, how many American homes had television?
(a) 75 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 90 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

12. When was Charles Tilly born?
(a) 1931.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1913.

13. What happened to disrupt social capital in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the 1960s?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Slum revitalization laws.
(c) Interstate 65.
(d) Rise of gangs.

14. How many tons of steel were produced in 1900?
(a) 5.4 million.
(b) 3.6 million.
(c) 11.2 million.
(d) 1.7 million.

15. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?
(a) 41 percent.
(b) 27 percent.
(c) 59 percent.
(d) 32 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much would an individual's chances of poor health increase if he moved from a state with a wealth of social capital to a state with little social capital?

2. What Nobel Prize winning economist believed that every commercial transaction carried with it an element of trust?

3. How long did it take the telephone to reach 75 percent of American households?

4. What did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?

5. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?

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