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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. What American President proposed that "counties be divided into wards of such size that every citizen can attend, when called on, and act in person"?
(a) James Madison.
(b) George Washington.
(c) James Monroe.
(d) Thomas Jefferson.

2. What book by William Julius Wilson written in 1987 did Putnam mention in Chapter 18?
(a) The Truly Disadvantaged.
(b) When Work Disappears.
(c) More Than Just Race.
(d) There Goes the Neighborhood.

3. 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) Conrad Aiken.
(b) T.S. Eliot.
(c) Frank Bidart.
(d) E. E. Cummings.

4. When did the government put in place slum clearance policies?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s and 1960s.
(d) 1960s and 1970s.

5. In what pastoral state did attendance at town meetings fall by nearly half between the early 1970s and the late 1990s?
(a) Kentucky.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Vermont.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?

2. In 1998, what percent of adults had children at home?

3. When was Charles Tilly born?

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

5. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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