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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) Conrad Aiken.
(b) Frank Bidart.
(c) T.S. Eliot.
(d) E. E. Cummings.

2. Who was the first American Nobel Laureate for literature?
(a) Pearl Buck.
(b) Sinclair Lewis.
(c) Thomas Mann.
(d) George Bernard Shaw.

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

4. In what pastoral state did attendance at town meetings fall by nearly half between the early 1970s and the late 1990s?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Maine.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Wisconsin.

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

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

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

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

9. When did divorce rates accelerate?
(a) 1960s to mid-1970s.
(b) 1970s to mid-1980s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s.

10. 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) 1940s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

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

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

13. Who wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?
(a) Jane Jacobs.
(b) Mary Whitcomb.
(c) Rebecca Davis.
(d) Caroline Phillips.

14. In which Arthur Miller book did Miller argue that "witches" or anyone who didn't fit in be shunned?
(a) The Crucible.
(b) Death of a Salesman.
(c) View from a Bridge.
(d) After the Fall.

15. In 1999 how many sixth-graders had a TV set in their bedroom?
(a) 77 percent.
(b) 64 percent.
(c) 51 percent.
(d) 48 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the novel "Babbit," where did the main character live?

2. What happened to disrupt social capital in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the 1960s?

3. 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?

4. When were Americans born who were the most engaged or tolerant?

5. During what time period was the Gilded Age?

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