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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 did diverse surveys indicate about the number of people who obtained jobs through a friend or relative?
(a) 2/3.
(b) About 1/2.
(c) About 1/3.
(d) 3/4.

2. How many nonprofit organizations were there per 1,000 inhabitants in Vermont?
(a) 5.8.
(b) 6.7.
(c) 3.6.
(d) 4.3.

3. What American president called groups organized around particular interest or passions "mischiefs of faction"?
(a) John Adams.
(b) James Madison.
(c) George Washington.
(d) Andrew Jackson.

4. In Figure 82 "Index of Educational Performance," what state was at the bottom of the chart?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Tennessee.
(d) Alabama.

5. Which state had the highest rate of murders?
(a) Mississippi.
(b) Florida.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Alabama.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state ranked 9th in the nation in terms of SAT scores, achievement tests, and dropout rates?

2. Who said, "The trouble with socialism is that it would take too many evenings"?

3. What is the nickname for the state of North Carolina?

4. When did the government put in place slum clearance policies?

5. In which Arthur Miller book did Miller argue that "witches" or anyone who didn't fit in be shunned?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did circumstantial evidence suggest that big government caused civic disengagement?

2. Why did Putnam believe that there was an increase in nostalgia in the late twentieth century?

3. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?

4. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?

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

6. How might social capital serve as a physiological triggering mechanism?

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

8. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?

9. What characteristics did criminologist Robert J. Sampson see in communities that had increased crime and violence?

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

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