QUESTIONS ON THE REQUIRED READINGS
1. Summarize the relation of local institutions to state government. (Guitteau, page 15.)
2. What factors are responsible for the decline of the town meeting in the Middle West? (Beard, page 651.)
3. Describe the early English county. (Guitteau, page 18.)
4. What are the chief divisions of the county in the southern and western parts of the United States? (Reed, pages 222-223.)
5. What are the sources of county government? (Reed, page 210.)
6. What is a "town chairman"? (Reed, page 222.)
7. What are the two types of county boards? (Beard, pages 640-641.)
8. What is a parish? (Guitteau, page 21.)
9. Why is there a growing demand that local institutions be placed under the supervision of the state government? (Beard, pages 654-655.)
10. What are the merits and defects of autonomy for rural local governments? (Munro, pages 544-545.)