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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. 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?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

2. Who said, "It is a medium of entertainment that permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
(a) Frank Bidart.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Conrad Aiken.
(d) E. E. Cummings.

3. What city launched a path-breaking education reform in the late 1980s that had parent participation as a cornerstone?
(a) Minneapolis.
(b) Atlanta.
(c) Detroit.
(d) Chicago.

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

5. In 1940, what was one of the poorest cities in the poorest state in the United States?
(a) Tupelo, Mississippi.
(b) Calhoun City, Mississippi.
(c) Anniston, Alabama.
(d) Bessemer, Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which state had the least number of murders?

2. By what date did Putnam want to ensure that Americans' level of civic engagement matched the social capital available in their grandparents' era?

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

4. What is the nickname for the state of North Carolina?

5. When was the Progressive Era?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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

3. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?

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

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

6. Which Americans were more likely to be involved in religious activities?

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

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

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

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

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