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

2. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

3. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?
(a) Guieseppe Ferrari.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) Neil Howe.
(d) William Strauss.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

2. What is the central role of midlife?

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

4. What did George Bush do during WWII?

5. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?

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