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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. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?
(a) Individual communities.
(b) Communities of limited liability.
(c) Personal communities.
(d) Communities of one.

2. In the late twentieth century, how many workers belonged to unions?
(a) 21.9 percent.
(b) 14.1 percent.
(c) 39.2 percent.
(d) 11.8 percent.

3. What Chicago suburb was closely studied by urbanist William Whyte?
(a) Park Forest.
(b) Aurora.
(c) Round Lake Beach.
(d) Wonder Lake.

4. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?
(a) 79.
(b) 81.
(c) 63.
(d) 57.

5. In 1986, what percent of all organization members had served as an officer?
(a) 38.
(b) 51.
(c) 26.
(d) 46.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

2. How much higher were crime rates in cities than in small towns or rural areas?

3. When do most scholars agree that church membership was most likely at an all-time high?

4. How many Americans were in the labor force in 1950?

5. Who rode the "antiparty bandwagon" to national prominence in 1992?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did time diaries from 1965, 1975, 1985, and 1995 reveal about participation in religious activities?

2. What warning did "Life" magazine give in an article in February, 1964?

3. What did surveys show about schmoozing?

4. What happened to the Little Rock, Arkansas Sertoma Club?

5. Why aren't voting and following politics, strictly speaking, social capital?

6. What changes in union membership have been seen in the twentieth century?

7. What were some great social movements that occurred in the last third of the twentieth century?

8. How did Rev. Craig McMullen define the church?

9. If fewer survey respondents said that "Most people can be trusted," what might that mean?

10. What was the change in the membership numbers of major national professional organizations during the last half of the twentieth century?

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