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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) Reactives.
(b) Adaptives.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Civics.

2. 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 lifecycle.
(b) A generation.
(c) A statistical generation.
(d) A constellation.

3. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?
(a) Sam Ervin.
(b) K. Warner Schaie.
(c) William Wirtz.
(d) Adlai Stevenson.

4. Who wrote Grown-ups?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

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 are the ages of youth?

2. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?

3. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?

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

5. What answer is not a generational type?

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