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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. By 1995, what percent of Americans opposed interracial dating?

2. What state ranked 9th in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?

3. At one time, whom did they want to rename the LAX airport after?

4. When was the Great Awakening?

5. In Figure 59, what percent of Americans spent their evenings watching TV?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?

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

4. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

There was a debate in the book regarding trends in religious behavior. Argue whether society was increasingly becoming secularized in the twentieth century or not.

Essay Topic 3

Argue whether race was or was not responsible for social disengagement. Use arguments from the book to support your position.

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