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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. What was the one democracy that had a lower voter turnout than the United States?

2. In 1998, how many people believed that people lived as honestly and morally as they used to?

3. When was there a strike by air traffic controllers?

4. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

5. From what language do the terms "macher" and "schmoozer" come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the change in the membership numbers of major national professional organizations during the last half of the twentieth century?

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

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

4. What were some organizational affiliations that Americans have had since the 1950s?

5. Why aren't voting and following politics, strictly speaking, social capital?

6. What were some great social movements that occurred in the last third of the twentieth century?

7. What analogy did Putnam use to show how frequent moves disrupt civic engagement?

8. What did surveys show about schmoozing?

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

10. How were African Americans prevented from voting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the decline of unions and the reasons why union membership declined in the twentieth century.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Seniors volunteered in greater numbers in the 1990s than in the 1970s. Discuss why more seniors were volunteering in the 1990s than at any other time.

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