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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. How many Americans in any given year suffered from major depression?
(a) 15 percent.
(b) 5 percent.
(c) 20 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

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

3. By what date did Putnam want to ensure that Americans' level of civic engagement matched the social capital available in their grandparents' era?
(a) 2015.
(b) 2020.
(c) 2025.
(d) 2010.

4. Who wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?
(a) Jane Jacobs.
(b) Caroline Phillips.
(c) Rebecca Davis.
(d) Mary Whitcomb.

5. What did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?
(a) 3/4.
(b) About 1/3.
(c) About 1/2.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the total decline of engagement might have been due to pressures of time and money?

2. In 1956, what percent of white Americans believed that whites and blacks should attend separate schools?

3. What proportion of American workers reported some flexibility in their work schedules in 1997?

4. In Figure 59, what percent of Americans spent their evenings watching TV?

5. When did Mark Granovetter document the fact that casual acquaintances can be more important assets than close friends and family when looking for a job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?

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