1.—How would you define the Rural Problem?
2.—Illustrate how the growth of the city has affected the rural problem.
3.—Explain the terms rural, urban, city, town, and village.
4.—What misleading comparisons have been made between city and country conditions?
5.—In what six states has the rural population, as a whole, shown a net loss in the last ten years?
6.—To what extent has rural America grown in population the past half century?
7.—Describe the symptoms of a decadent village.
8.—Under what conditions do you find a village improving even when losing population?
9.—Discuss carefully the comparative degeneracy of the city and the country.
10.—Describe some of the stages of rural degeneracy.