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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Four-Part Cycle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?
(a) The 70s.
(b) The 80s.
(c) The 60s.
(d) The 50s.

2. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(b) He'd find it terrifying.
(c) He'd find it calming.
(d) He'd find it inspiring.

3. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?
(a) 25-29.
(b) 35-39.
(c) 20-24.
(d) 30-34.

4. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?
(a) Age-bracket fallacy.
(b) Life-course fallacy.
(c) Intersecting fallacy.
(d) Intrinsic connection fallacy.

5. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?
(a) 22.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

2. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?

3. What is true of cohort-membership?

4. Who wrote Grown-ups?

5. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?

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