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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 1870, how many miles were there in the nationwide rail network?
(a) 62,000.
(b) 71,000.
(c) 53,000.
(d) 46,000.

2. What percent of the decline of engagement might have been caused by electronic entertainment:
(a) 41.
(b) 25.
(c) 34.
(d) 18.

3. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 80 percent.
(c) 85 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

4. What was North Carolina's rank in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?
(a) 41.
(b) 37.
(c) 26.
(d) 52.

5. In 1959, how many American homes had television?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 80 percent.
(c) 75 percent.
(d) 90 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?

2. When was the Great Awakening?

3. What did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?

4. Who sang, "get by with a little help from our friends"?

5. In which Arthur Miller book did Miller argue that "witches" or anyone who didn't fit in be shunned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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

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

6. What characteristics did criminologist Robert J. Sampson see in communities that had increased crime and violence?

7. What is generally accepted as the most reliable index of the incidence of crime?

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

9. What did the most systematic study of civic skills in contemporary America suggest?

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

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