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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the government put in place slum clearance policies?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1950s and 1960s.
(c) 1960s and 1970s.
(d) 1960s.

2. When was the Great Awakening?
(a) 1730-1760.
(b) 1640-1670.
(c) 1900-1920.
(d) 1812-1830.

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

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

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

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

7. What American president called groups organized around particular interest or passions "mischiefs of faction"?
(a) John Adams.
(b) George Washington.
(c) James Madison.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

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

9. What type of a culture was found in the South?
(a) Conventionalistic.
(b) Individualistic.
(c) Moralistic.
(d) Traditionalistic.

10. What was North Carolina's rank in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?
(a) 37.
(b) 52.
(c) 41.
(d) 26.

11. What is the nickname for the state of North Carolina?
(a) The Old Dominion State.
(b) Yellowhammer State.
(c) Tar Heel State.
(d) The Peach State.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state was tax evasion the highest?

2. How large of a gorilla did Robinson and Godbey compare television to?

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

4. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?

5. In 1959, how many American homes had television?

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