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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 Nobel Prize winning economist believed that every commercial transaction carried with it an element of trust?
(a) Kenneth Arrow.
(b) Thomas Robert Malthus.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Milton Friedman.

2. What state ranked 9th in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?
(a) Colorado.
(b) New York.
(c) Idaho.
(d) Connecticut.

3. Of the Korean business owners who used debt to start a business, how many borrowed money from family?
(a) 32 percent.
(b) 27 percent.
(c) 59 percent.
(d) 41 percent.

4. When was funding decimated for extracurricular activities?
(a) 1960s and 1970s.
(b) 1970s and 1980s.
(c) 1950s and 1960s.
(d) 1980s and 1990s.

5. What percent of the decline of engagement might have been caused by electronic entertainment:
(a) 25.
(b) 34.
(c) 18.
(d) 41.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the novel "Babbit," where did the main character live?

2. What small, Italian American community had been studied for nearly 40 years beginning in the 1950s?

3. In 1940, what was one of the poorest cities in the poorest state in the United States?

4. After 1870, how many more patents were generated than in previous years?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why had civic life been graying in the last forty years of the twentieth century?

4. How did the school integration busing issue illustrate the trade-offs between bridging and bonding social capital?

5. What were some inventions that transformed American life after 1870?

6. What did the most systematic study of civic skills in contemporary America suggest?

7. Why did John Stuart Mill laud the effects of participatory democracy on character?

8. What is generally accepted as the most reliable index of the incidence of crime?

9. What did Putnam believe that leaders and activists must seek to do to rebuild social capital?

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

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