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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. Between 1970 and 1998, by how much did the number of full-service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fall?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/6.
(c) 1/5.
(d) 1/8.

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

3. In 1960, how many American adults graduated from high school?
(a) 23 percent.
(b) 56 percent.
(c) 39 percent.
(d) 41 percent.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?

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

3. What percent of individuals did Jeremy Toole believed received their social connections from the workplace?

4. During what decades did giving in America increase to nearly 50 percent?

5. During the 1950s and 1960s, what percent of workers belonged to professional associations and other economic organizations (other than unions)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What cards games used to be popular?

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

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

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

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

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