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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. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?
(a) 70 percent.
(b) 85 percent.
(c) 80 percent.
(d) 75 percent.

2. What percent of the total decline of engagement might have been due to pressures of time and money?
(a) 10.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

3. When was "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" written?
(a) 1961.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1973.

4. When were Americans born who were the most engaged or tolerant?
(a) 1930-35.
(b) 1960-65.
(c) 1940-45.
(d) 1950-55.

5. What did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?
(a) About 1/2.
(b) About 1/3.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 2/3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Great Awakening?

2. According to a study by Sampson and Groves, which country found that organizational participation and social ties made a difference in reducing crime levels?

3. How long did it take the telephone to reach 75 percent of American households?

4. When was the Progressive Era?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why did circumstantial evidence suggest that big government caused civic disengagement?

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

5. What is generally accepted as the most reliable index of the incidence of crime?

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

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

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

9. What characteristics did criminologist Robert J. Sampson see in communities that had increased crime and violence?

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

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