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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. What percent of the decline of engagement might have been caused by electronic entertainment:

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

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

4. How many nonprofit organizations were there per 1,000 inhabitants in Vermont?

5. When did divorce rates accelerate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why when looking for a job, did Mark Granovetter document that acquaintances were more important than other factors?

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

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

4. What did teachers report in areas where civic engagement in community affairs in general was high?

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

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

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

8. What is one of the strongest predictors of whether inner-city black youths find jobs and why?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mass-membership organization rose in the late twentieth century. Discuss the mass-membership organization and its role in society.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the decline of unions and the reasons why union membership declined in the twentieth century.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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