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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. By what date did Putnam want to ensure that Americans' level of civic engagement matched the social capital available in their grandparents' era?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2015.
(c) 2025.
(d) 2020.

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

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

5. 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) Katie Couric.
(c) Walter Cronkite.
(d) Tom Brokaw.

6. What small, Italian American community had been studied for nearly 40 years beginning in the 1950s?
(a) Roseto, Pennsylvania.
(b) Milano, Pennsylvania.
(c) Rome Point, Rhode Island.
(d) Coventry, Rhode Island.

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

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

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

10. According to a study by Sampson and Groves, which country found that organizational participation and social ties made a difference in reducing crime levels?
(a) Britain.
(b) Spain.
(c) Sweden.
(d) United States.

11. What American President proposed that "counties be divided into wards of such size that every citizen can attend, when called on, and act in person"?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) George Washington.
(c) James Madison.
(d) James Monroe.

12. By 1995, what percent of Americans opposed interracial dating?
(a) 31.
(b) 17.
(c) 23.
(d) 46.

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

14. What percent of the total decline of engagement might have been due to pressures of time and money?
(a) 25.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

15. How many indicators of formal and informal community networks and social trust were studied across the U.S. to rate the average social capital of various states?
(a) 21.
(b) 17.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

Short Answer Questions

1. At one time, whom did they want to rename the LAX airport after?

2. If someone belonged to no groups, but decided to join one, how much would he cut his risk of dying over the next year?

3. 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?

4. How many Americans in any given year suffered from major depression?

5. 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."

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