View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to disrupt social capital in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the 1960s?
(a) Interstate 65.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Slum revitalization laws.
(d) Rise of gangs.

2. In 1956, what percent of white Americans believed that whites and blacks should attend separate schools?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 40.
(d) 55.

3. Who was the first American Nobel Laureate for literature?
(a) Pearl Buck.
(b) Sinclair Lewis.
(c) George Bernard Shaw.
(d) Thomas Mann.

4. How long did it take the telephone to reach 75 percent of American households?
(a) 41 years.
(b) 74 years.
(c) 53 years.
(d) 67 years.

5. What proportion of American workers reported some flexibility in their work schedules in 1997?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 35 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what pastoral state did attendance at town meetings fall by nearly half between the early 1970s and the late 1990s?

2. When was the Great Awakening?

3. How much would an individual's chances of poor health increase if he moved from a state with a wealth of social capital to a state with little social capital?

4. At what percent was social trust in Mississippi?

5. Who wrote a book profiling the heroic World War II generation that got mixed reviews from critics, but was a runaway best-seller?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?

4. What did teachers report in areas where civic engagement in community affairs in general was high?

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

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

7. When people said that television was their main form of entertainment, what activities did these people participate in less often?

8. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?

9. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 805 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample