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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 1998, what percent of American adults were married?
(a) 37.
(b) 61.
(c) 45.
(d) 56.

2. How many indicators of formal and informal community networks and social trust were studied across the U.S. to rate the average social capital of various states?
(a) 17.
(b) 14.
(c) 21.
(d) 12.

3. When was funding decimated for extracurricular activities?
(a) 1950s and 1960s.
(b) 1970s and 1980s.
(c) 1960s and 1970s.
(d) 1980s and 1990s.

4. In Figure 59, what percent of Americans spent their evenings watching TV?
(a) 47 percent.
(b) 79 percent.
(c) 81 percent.
(d) 62 percent.

5. In what state was tax evasion the highest?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Utah.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How large of a gorilla did Robinson and Godbey compare television to?

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

4. By the time the average baby boomer reached age 16, how many hours of television had he watched?

5. Researchers at what university discovered that people with more diverse social ties got fewer colds?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?

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