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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 Americans moved?
(a) 8 percent.
(b) 32 percent.
(c) 16 percent.
(d) 24 percent.

2. How much more common is philanthropy and volunteering in American than in other countries?
(a) 1/4.
(b) Three times as common.
(c) 1/2.
(d) Twice as common.

3. For men in the years between 1965 and 1995, how much more time did they have for leisure activities per week?
(a) 8.4 hours.
(b) 9.6 hours.
(c) 10.2 hours.
(d) 7.9 hours.

4. What Agatha Christie book did Putnam mention in Chapter 10?
(a) Murder on the Orient Express.
(b) A Murder is Announced.
(c) Ordeal by Innocence.
(d) The Moving Finger.

5. In what state did the KKK want to "adopt a highway"?
(a) Florida.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What university studied the changes in personal behavior between 1957 and 1976?

3. In 1966, what percent of Americans rejected the view that "the people running the country don't really care what happens to you"?

4. What Chicago suburb was closely studied by urbanist William Whyte?

5. Between 1986-86 and 1998-99, how much of a decline was there in the number of average Americans who made new friends?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What activities did women participate in as "machers"?

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

5. In what group was there seen an increase in volunteering?

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

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

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

9. How did America compare with other democracies in the rate of political participation?

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

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