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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 university studied the changes in personal behavior between 1957 and 1976?
(a) University of Illinois.
(b) University of Indiana.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) University of Colorado.

2. Where was the bridge club located that Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Hastings, Michigan.
(b) Thornton, Colorado.
(c) Marshalltown, Iowa.
(d) Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania.

3. When comparing voting records, how many years had it been since voter turnout was as bad as it was in 1996?
(a) 164.
(b) 98.
(c) 65.
(d) 15.

4. Of people who expected to move in five years, what percent were less likely to attend church, club meetings, volunteer or work on community projects?
(a) 40-45.
(b) 20-25.
(c) 10-15.
(d) 30-35.

5. How many units of blood per one thousand adults was donated in 1997?
(a) 78.
(b) 41.
(c) 62.
(d) 53.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?

2. When was the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP established?

3. What age group of people was more likely to make telephone calls?

4. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?

5. In the 1940s, how likely was it that a deck of playing cards would be found in American homes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Putnam say that rising mobility wasn't the central reason for civic disengagement?

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

3. What is reciprocity?

4. What did one scholar say about religion and America?

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

6. What does it take to be a member of AARP?

7. What cards games used to be popular?

8. What analogy did Putnam use to show how frequent moves disrupt civic engagement?

9. How was the early nineteenth century in New England "a very social time"?

10. How were African Americans prevented from voting?

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