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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 was the first American Nobel Laureate for literature?
(a) Thomas Mann.
(b) George Bernard Shaw.
(c) Pearl Buck.
(d) Sinclair Lewis.

2. What was North Carolina's rank in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?
(a) 26.
(b) 37.
(c) 41.
(d) 52.

3. According to a study by Sampson and Groves, which country found that organizational participation and social ties made a difference in reducing crime levels?
(a) United States.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Spain.
(d) Britain.

4. How many nonprofit organizations were there per 1,000 inhabitants in Vermont?
(a) 5.8.
(b) 3.6.
(c) 6.7.
(d) 4.3.

5. At one time, whom did they want to rename the LAX airport after?
(a) Jimmy Stewart.
(b) Clint Eastwood.
(c) James Cagney.
(d) Bing Crosby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of the total decline of engagement might have been due to pressures of time and money?

2. By what date did Putnam want to ensure that Americans' level of civic engagement matched the social capital available in their grandparents' era?

3. When did divorce rates accelerate?

4. What happened to disrupt social capital in the inner city of Indianapolis, Indiana, in the 1960s?

5. What book by William Julius Wilson written in 1987 did Putnam mention in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?

6. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?

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

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

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

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

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