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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Revolutionary Cycle, 1734-1825.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Gail Sheehy.
(d) Erik Erikson.

2. 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.

3. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?
(a) Secular crisis.
(b) Social moment.
(c) Consciousness Revolution.
(d) Spiritual awakening.

4. Who taught "our submission to the rules of reason is an obedience to God"?
(a) Jonathan Edwards.
(b) John Welsey.
(c) Charles Chauncy.
(d) Cotton Mather.

5. What is true of cohort-membership?
(a) It is involuntary.
(b) It is age related.
(c) It chooses you.
(d) It is voluntary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

2. Who wrote Exile's Return?

3. Who wrote Grown-ups?

4. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

5. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?

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