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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the 1990s, how many women worked outside the home?
(a) 3 out of 4.
(b) 2 out of 3.
(c) 1 out of 2.
(d) 4 out of 5.
2. How much higher were crime rates in cities than in small towns or rural areas?
(a) 1-2 times.
(b) 4-5 times.
(c) 2-3 times.
(d) 3-4 times.
3. How much had states spent on "motor voter" registration?
(a) $58 million.
(b) $100 million.
(c) $79 million.
(d) $45 million.
4. Where were groups of working-class housewives most likely to play cards frequently?
(a) Rockies.
(b) East coast.
(c) Great Plains.
(d) West coast.
5. In 1995 how many Americans volunteered?
(a) 71 million.
(b) 93 million.
(c) 68 million.
(d) 86 million.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many units of blood per one thousand adults was donated in 1997?
2. In what year were Americans split about fifty-fifty on the issue whether society was as upright morally as it has been in the past?
3. What publication ran an article about the challenge of free time and Americans in 1964?
4. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?
5. What ages of women in the 1980s and 1990s felt the most harried?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the Charity League of Dallas have to hold their last meeting?
2. What warning did "Life" magazine give in an article in February, 1964?
3. What was one of the fastest-growing industries in the 1980s and why?
4. What was the mystery about the erosion of social capital?
5. What are intracohort changes?
6. How did Rev. Craig McMullen define the church?
7. What did surveys show about schmoozing?
8. What contributed to the decline in religious participation?
9. Why did Putnam say that rising mobility wasn't the central reason for civic disengagement?
10. How did America compare with other democracies in the rate of political participation?
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