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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cycle in America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Jane Addams.
(b) Malcolm Cowley.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Ellen Lagemann.

2. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Youth and rising adult.
(b) Midlife and rising adulthood.
(c) Midlife and elderhood.
(d) Rising adulthood and elderhood.

3. What year were the first G.I. babies born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1901.

4. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?
(a) 17-33.
(b) 10-25.
(c) 15-30.
(d) 19-35.

5. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?
(a) Civics.
(b) Reactives.
(c) Adaptives.
(d) Idealists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ages of youth?

2. What answer is not a generational type?

3. What are children living home after college called?

4. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

5. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

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