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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Figure 59, what percent of Americans spent their evenings watching TV?
(a) 81 percent.
(b) 47 percent.
(c) 79 percent.
(d) 62 percent.

2. In the novel "Babbit," where did the main character live?
(a) Brooklyn, Iowa.
(b) Zenith, Ohio.
(c) Clarksville, Michigan.
(d) Harlan, Indiana.

3. What book by William Julius Wilson written in 1987 did Putnam mention in Chapter 18?
(a) When Work Disappears.
(b) The Truly Disadvantaged.
(c) More Than Just Race.
(d) There Goes the Neighborhood.

4. After 1870, how many more patents were generated than in previous years?
(a) 15 times.
(b) 5 times.
(c) 10 times.
(d) 20 times.

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

6. When was the Progressive Era?
(a) 1900-1915.
(b) 1900-1930.
(c) 1905-1910.
(d) 1915-1920.

7. What Nobel Prize winning economist believed that every commercial transaction carried with it an element of trust?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Kenneth Arrow.
(c) Thomas Robert Malthus.
(d) Milton Friedman.

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

9. 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?
(a) 40-70 percent.
(b) 20-30 percent.
(c) 15-20 percent.
(d) 50-60 percent.

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

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

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

13. When did Mark Granovetter document the fact that casual acquaintances can be more important assets than close friends and family when looking for a job?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

14. Who said, "The trouble with socialism is that it would take too many evenings"?
(a) Oscar Wilde.
(b) Harry Cohen.
(c) Albert Camus.
(d) Honore de Balzac.

15. Where was it first written that "To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heaven"?
(a) Psalms.
(b) Ecclesiastes.
(c) A country western song.
(d) A rock song.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?

2. Until 1870, how many inventions had been recognized by the U.S. Patent Office?

3. What type of a culture was found in the South?

4. Who wrote a book profiling the heroic World War II generation that got mixed reviews from critics, but was a runaway best-seller?

5. At what percent was social trust in Mississippi?

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