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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. How much did the number of nonprofit organizations of national scope listed in "Encylopedia of Associations" change between 1968 and 1997?

2. In 1995 how many Americans volunteered?

3. Who rode the "antiparty bandwagon" to national prominence in 1992?

4. By how much did Greenpeace's membership drop when they stopped using direct-mail solicitation?

5. During what period of time had the character of Americans' involvement with politics and government been transformed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the amount of money that Americans spent on dues relate to the priority they placed on organizational involvement?

2. How did Greenpeace gain and then lose members?

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

4. What are intracohort changes?

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

6. What was one of the fastest-growing industries in the 1980s and why?

7. What is reciprocity?

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

9. What changes in union membership have been seen in the twentieth century?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the value and problems of social networks. What areas of life benefit from these networks? Do the benefits outweigh the problems?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

The idea was proposed that workers transferred their friendships, civic discussions, and community ties from"the front porch to the water cooler." Discuss whether workers transferred their social ties from the community to the workplace.

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