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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 23, Lessons of History: The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of AARP's members belonged to local chapters?
(a) Less than 15 percent.
(b) Less than 5 percent.
(c) Less than 20 percent.
(d) Less than 10 percent.

2. What type of a culture was found in the South?
(a) Individualistic.
(b) Conventionalistic.
(c) Traditionalistic.
(d) Moralistic.

3. Between 1986-86 and 1998-99, how much of a decline was there in the number of average Americans who made new friends?
(a) 1/4.
(b) 1/5.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 1/3.

4. When do most scholars agree that church membership was most likely at an all-time high?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1960s.

5. Where was the bridge club located that Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Glenn Valley, Pennsylvania.
(b) Marshalltown, Iowa.
(c) Hastings, Michigan.
(d) Thornton, Colorado.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men born in the 1920s served in the military?

2. Between 1976 and 1997, what was the drop in families with children between eight to seventeen who vacationed together?

3. Where was a study done that indicated that each employed person in one's social network increased one's annual income by $1,400?

4. When did party finances skyrocket?

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

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