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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) 2 out of 3.
(b) 4 out of 5.
(c) 1 out of 2.
(d) 3 out of 4.

2. How many Americans were in the labor force in 1950?
(a) 45 percent.
(b) 59 percent.
(c) 28 percent.
(d) 32 percent.

3. When was the first known use of the term social capital?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1923.

4. Who wrote in 1959 that "the ratio of political activists to the general population, and even the ratio of male activists to the male population, has generally increased over the past fifty years"?
(a) Daniel Bell.
(b) Rachel Carson
(c) Robert E. Lane.
(d) Virginia Held.

5. When did party finances skyrocket?
(a) 1980s and 1990s.
(b) 1960s and 1970s.
(c) 1970s and 1980s.
(d) 1940s and 1950s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Roper polls in the 1980s and 1990s, how many American reported going out for entertainment?

2. In 1998, how many people believed that people lived as honestly and morally as they used to?

3. How many years did the Charity League of Dallas meet every Friday morning?

4. Between 1970 and 1998, by how much did the number of full-service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fall?

5. In 1985, of the 205 national citizens groups in existence, how many had chapters to which individual members belonged and paid dues?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the amount of money that Americans spent on dues relate to the priority they placed on organizational involvement?

2. Why would being too busy be an obvious reason for the tendency to drop out of community affairs?

3. How did the effect of women getting a job outside the home have opposite effects on community involvement?

4. If professional organizations increased membership in the twentieth century, why did Putnam believe that membership was declining?

5. Why weren't the 1950s and 1960s a "golden age"?

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

7. What was the mystery about the erosion of social capital?

8. What were some organizational affiliations that Americans have had since the 1950s?

9. What did surveys show about schmoozing?

10. Why did the Charity League of Dallas have to hold their last meeting?

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