It is a Theorem of W. W. Comfort and K. A. Ross that if G is a subgroup of a compact Abelian group, and S denotes those continuous homomorphisms from G to the one-dimensional torus, then the topology on G is the initial topology given by S. Assume that H is a subgroup of G. We study how the choice of S affects the topological placement and properties of H in G. Among other results, we have made significant progress toward the solution of the following specific questions: How many totally bounded group topologies does G admit such that H is a closed (dense) subgroup? If C S denotes the poset of all subgroups of G that are S-closed, ordered by inclusion, does C S has a greatest (resp. smallest) element? We say that a totally bounded (topological, resp.) group is an SC-group (topologically simple, resp.) if all its subgroups are closed (if G and {e} are its only possible closed normal subgroups, resp.) In addition, we investigate the following questions. How many SC-(topologically simple totally bounded, resp.) group topologies does an arbitrary Abelian group G admit?