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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many Korean business owners used debt financing to start their enterprises?
2. In 1998, what percent of adults had children at home?
3. At what percent was social trust in Mississippi?
4. When were Americans born who were the most engaged or tolerant?
5. By the time the average baby boomer reached age 16, how many hours of television had he watched?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Putnam believe that leaders and activists must seek to do to rebuild social capital?
2. What have studies shown about health and integration with the community?
3. Why did smaller schools encourage more active involvement in extracurricular activity?
4. What was different about American males in their sixties and seventies at the end of the twentieth century than their grandsons?
5. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?
6. Materially, how did the standard of living improve in the United States during the 50 years after the Civil War?
7. When people said that television was their main form of entertainment, what activities did these people participate in less often?
8. What did the most systematic study of civic skills in contemporary America suggest?
9. What was discovered about social capital and how people coped with life?
10. Which Americans were more likely to be involved in religious activities?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There was a debate in the book regarding trends in religious behavior. Argue whether society was increasingly becoming secularized in the twentieth century or not.
Essay Topic 2
Jim Crow laws decimated voter turnout in the South. Discuss the Jim Crow laws and how voting was affected when the laws were in place and when the laws were repealed.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the value and problems of social networks. What areas of life benefit from these networks? Do the benefits outweigh the problems?
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