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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. What are the ages of youth?
(a) 0-18.
(b) 0-21.
(c) 0-16.
(d) 0-12.

2. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) Anthony Lewis.
(b) Ted Kennedy.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. What is the central role of midlife?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Activity.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Leadership.

4. What year was the Apollo moon landing?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1968.

5. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Cheryl Merser.
(c) Gail Sheehy.
(d) Daniel Levinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Bush do during WWII?

2. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?

3. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?

4. Which answer is not a biological phase of aging?

5. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?

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