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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. What crop needed to be harvested in the quote at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Hay.
(b) Corn.
(c) Soybeans.
(d) Wheat.

2. How many organizations did Putnam find listed in the "World Alamanc"?
(a) 2,380.
(b) 937.
(c) 1,839.
(d) 584.

3. Of the 28,000 National Audubon Society members in Texas, how many were active members?
(a) 21 percent.
(b) 15 percent.
(c) 3-4 percent.
(d) 7-8 percent.

4. In the 1990s, how many Americans moved?
(a) 32 percent.
(b) 8 percent.
(c) 16 percent.
(d) 24 percent.

5. Who said "80 percent of life is simply showing up"?
(a) Sid Caesar.
(b) Woody Allen.
(c) Bill Cosby.
(d) Bob Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In surveys, how many Americans said that they believed in immortality?

2. Between 1970 and 1998, by how much did the number of full-service restaurants per one hundred thousand population fall?

3. In the 1950s, how many Americans changed residence each year?

4. In one survey, how many more people did regular church attendees report talking with in a day as compared to non-church attendees?

5. By November, 1998, how many members attended a heated contest for the president of the Roanoke, Virginia Chapter of the NAACP?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What changes in union membership have been seen in the twentieth century?

3. What was one of the fastest-growing industries in the 1980s and why?

4. How did Greenpeace gain and then lose members?

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

6. How was the early nineteenth century in New England "a very social time"?

7. What did surveys show about schmoozing?

8. If professional organizations increased membership in the twentieth century, why did Putnam believe that membership was declining?

9. What were some organizational affiliations that Americans have had since the 1950s?

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

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