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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 percent of the decline of engagement might have been caused by electronic entertainment:
(a) 25.
(b) 18.
(c) 41.
(d) 34.
2. 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?
(a) 40-70 percent.
(b) 15-20 percent.
(c) 20-30 percent.
(d) 50-60 percent.
3. In what state was tax evasion the highest?
(a) Vermont.
(b) Illinois.
(c) Nevada.
(d) Utah.
4. When did divorce rates accelerate?
(a) 1970s to mid-1980s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s to mid-1970s.
(d) 1980s.
5. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?
(a) 41 percent.
(b) 59 percent.
(c) 32 percent.
(d) 27 percent.
Short Answer Questions
1. After 1870, how many more patents were generated than in previous years?
2. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?
3. What type of a culture was found in the South?
4. Which state had the highest rate of murders?
5. Who was the first American Nobel Laureate for literature?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?
2. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?
3. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?
4. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?
5. What characteristics did criminologist Robert J. Sampson see in communities that had increased crime and violence?
6. When people said that television was their main form of entertainment, what activities did these people participate in less often?
7. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?
8. Which Americans were more likely to be involved in religious activities?
9. What did teachers report in areas where civic engagement in community affairs in general was high?
10. What were some inventions that transformed American life after 1870?
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