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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Out of every dollar spent for leisure in 1929, how many cents went to club and fraternal dues?

2. When was the last year of the baby boom generation?

3. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?

4. By November, 1998, how many members attended a heated contest for the president of the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP?

5. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did one scholar say about religion and America?

2. What did time diaries from 1965, 1975, 1985, and 1995 reveal about participation in religious activities?

3. What happened to the Little Rock, Arkansas Sertoma Club?

4. What cards games used to be popular?

5. What contributed to the decline in religious participation?

6. How did the effect of women getting a job outside the home have opposite effects on community involvement?

7. What warning did "Life" magazine give in an article in February, 1964?

8. Why did Putnam say that rising mobility wasn't the central reason for civic disengagement?

9. How were self-help groups different from civic groups?

10. What is reciprocity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Machers" and "schmoozers" represent the distinction between formal and informal social connectedness. Compare and contrast "machers" and "schmoozers."

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what reciprocity is and how it benefits society.

Essay Topic 3

An analogy was used to compare social connectedness to a murder mystery. Discuss what tests or benchmarks needed to be used when considering possible reasons why social connectedness declined.

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