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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 much was spent on Presidential election campaigns in 1965?
(a) $18 million.
(b) $41 million.
(c) $28 million.
(d) $35 million.

2. Between the 1970s and 1990s, by what percent did church attendance fall among people under sixty?
(a) 5-10.
(b) 30-35.
(c) 10-20.
(d) 25-30.

3. By what percent did union membership rates decline between 1953 and 1997 in the mining industry?
(a) 81.
(b) 63.
(c) 57.
(d) 79.

4. In 1996, how many Americans voted in the election between Clinton, Dole, and Perot?
(a) 36.9 percent.
(b) 23.8 percent.
(c) 51.3 percent.
(d) 48.9 percent.

5. What Agatha Christie book did Putnam mention in Chapter 10?
(a) Ordeal by Innocence.
(b) Murder on the Orient Express.
(c) A Murder is Announced.
(d) The Moving Finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crop needed to be harvested in the quote at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. What nineteenth century Frenchman did Putnam say was frequently quoted by social scientists?

3. How much more common is philanthropy and volunteering in American than in other countries?

4. When was there a strike by air traffic controllers?

5. When were members playing regularly in the bridge club Putnam mentioned in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the change in the membership numbers of major national professional organizations during the last half of the twentieth century?

2. Why was altruism an important diagnostic sign of social capital?

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

4. What analogy did Putnam use to show how frequent moves disrupt civic engagement?

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

6. Why did the Charity League of Dallas have to hold their last meeting?

7. What are intracohort changes?

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

9. How were African Americans prevented from voting?

10. What were some great social movements that occurred in the last third of the twentieth century?

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