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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. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Chicago.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Memphis.

2. In what pastoral state did attendance at town meetings fall by nearly half between the early 1970s and the late 1990s?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Maine.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Vermont.

3. When were Americans born who were the most engaged or tolerant?
(a) 1950-55.
(b) 1930-35.
(c) 1960-65.
(d) 1940-45.

4. When did divorce rates accelerate?
(a) 1960s to mid-1970s.
(b) 1970s to mid-1980s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1980s.

5. When did the government put in place slum clearance policies?
(a) 1950s and 1960s.
(b) 1960s and 1970s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1960s.

Short Answer Questions

1. After 1870, how many more patents were generated than in previous years?

2. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?

3. In what country did Putnam and several colleagues investigate regional government?

4. In 1998, what percent of American adults were married?

5. How many tons of steel were produced in 1900?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?

2. Why did Putnam believe that there was an increase in nostalgia in the late twentieth century?

3. What did Putnam see as a trend in newspaper readership?

4. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?

5. Why did smaller schools encourage more active involvement in extracurricular activity?

6. What were some inventions that transformed American life after 1870?

7. What did Putnam believe that leaders and activists must seek to do to rebuild social capital?

8. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

9. How did commentators like Michael Schudson and Alan Wolfe view the change in social capital from the 1950s to the 1960s?

10. What was different about American males in their sixties and seventies at the end of the twentieth century than their grandsons?

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