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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. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?

2. By the time the average baby boomer reached age 16, how many hours of television had he watched?

3. In what state was tax evasion the highest?

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

5. What American president called groups organized around particular interest or passions "mischiefs of faction"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When people said that television was their main form of entertainment, what activities did these people participate in less often?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim Crow laws decimated voter turnout in the South. Discuss the Jim Crow laws and how voting was affected when the laws were in place and when the laws were repealed.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss what reciprocity is and how it benefits society.

Essay Topic 3

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

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