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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) On the diagonal.
(b) On the vertical.
(c) On the horizontal.
(d) As an ellipse.

3. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?
(a) The Hippy Movement.
(b) The Woodstock generation.
(c) The Consciousness Revolution.
(d) The War on Drugs.

4. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?
(a) The embrace of their religion.
(b) Their rebellion against the English monarchy.
(c) Their emigration to America.
(d) The raising of their children.

5. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Social Moments.
(b) Interactive critcal events.
(c) Generational phases.
(d) Corresponding idealism.

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

7. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) 52.
(b) 42.
(c) 28.
(d) 36.

8. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?
(a) As highways
(b) As bus stations
(c) As trains
(d) As ocean liners

9. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A constellation.
(b) A statistical generation.
(c) A generation.
(d) A lifecycle.

10. In each constellation, what do the peer personalities each possess?
(a) Their own mood.
(b) Their own work ethic.
(c) Their own morals.
(d) Their own philosoplies.

11. When were boomers born?
(a) 1940-1960.
(b) 1945-1966.
(c) 1946-1964.
(d) 1944-1963.

12. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?
(a) Gerald Ford.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

13. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Spiritual awakening.
(b) Consciousness Revolution.
(c) Social moment.
(d) Secular crisis.

14. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?
(a) James I.
(b) Victoria.
(c) Mary I.
(d) Elizabeth.

15. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?
(a) The Enlightenment Generation.
(b) The Glorious Generation.
(c) The Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) The Glorious Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?

2. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

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

4. What are the dates of the Armada Crisis?

5. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?

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