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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many more hours did married couples average in a work week in 1998 than they did in 1969?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 7.

2. Of people who expected to move in five years, what percent were less likely to attend church, club meetings, volunteer or work on community projects?
(a) 40-45.
(b) 20-25.
(c) 10-15.
(d) 30-35.

3. Sociologist Wade Clark Roof estimated that 2/3 of all boomers reared in religious traditions dropped out. How many returned to religion?
(a) Less than 1/5.
(b) Less than 1/2.
(c) Less than 1/4.
(d) Less than 1/3.

4. By 1992, how many work places had "quality circles"?
(a) 41 percent.
(b) 56 percent.
(c) 67 percent.
(d) 39 percent.

5. What did sociologists Claude Fischer and Robert Jackson call single-stranded interactions that began to take place in America?
(a) Communities of one.
(b) Individual communities.
(c) Personal communities.
(d) Communities of limited liability.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1995 how many Americans volunteered?

2. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?

3. In 1966, what percent of Americans rejected the view that "the people running the country don't really care what happens to you"?

4. When did the membership of community involvement groups plateau?

5. In 1960, how many voting-age Americans went to the polls to choose between Kennedy and Nixon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Rev. Craig McMullen define the church?

3. What does it take to be a member of AARP?

4. What did one scholar say about religion and America?

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

6. Why weren't the 1950s and 1960s a "golden age"?

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

8. What was the mystery about the erosion of social capital?

9. What contributed to the decline in religious participation?

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

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