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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. Researchers at what university discovered that people with more diverse social ties got fewer colds?
(a) Columbia University.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Carnegie Mellon University.
(d) Yale.

2. By the time the average baby boomer reached age 16, how many hours of television had he watched?
(a) 25,000 hours.
(b) 5,000 to 6,000 hours.
(c) 20,000 hours.
(d) 12,000 to 15,000 hours.

3. When was Charles Tilly born?
(a) 1928.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1931.
(d) 1898.

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

5. In which Arthur Miller book did Miller argue that "witches" or anyone who didn't fit in be shunned?
(a) Death of a Salesman.
(b) The Crucible.
(c) View from a Bridge.
(d) After the Fall.

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. In the novel "Babbit," where did the main character live?

3. When was "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" written?

4. Who wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Why did John Stuart Mill laud the effects of participatory democracy on character?

9. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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

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