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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. Who wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"?
(a) Jane Jacobs.
(b) Rebecca Davis.
(c) Mary Whitcomb.
(d) Caroline Phillips.

2. Until 1870, how many inventions had been recognized by the U.S. Patent Office?
(a) 57,000.
(b) 98,000.
(c) 118,000.
(d) 133,000.

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

4. When did Bill Clinton become president?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1996.

5. Which state had the least number of murders?
(a) Maryland.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Washington.
(d) North Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?

2. When did the government put in place slum clearance policies?

3. Who was the first American Nobel Laureate for literature?

4. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?

5. In 1959, how many American homes had television?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How did the school integration busing issue illustrate the trade-offs between bridging and bonding social capital?

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

10. How does social capital affect child abuse rates?

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