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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. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?
(a) 38-42.
(b) 35-40.
(c) 42-46.
(d) 40-44.

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

3. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?
(a) 20-24.
(b) 30-34.
(c) 35-39.
(d) 25-29.

4. What were the ages of the G.I. Generation on Pearl Harbor Sunday?
(a) 35-65.
(b) birth-40.
(c) 17-34.
(d) 21-45.

5. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Rising adulthood and elderhood.
(b) Midlife and rising adulthood.
(c) Youth and rising adult.
(d) Midlife and elderhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?

2. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

3. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

4. Who wrote Grown-ups?

5. What is the central role of elderhood?

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