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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. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?
(a) By the average age at death.
(b) By the average age of parenthood.
(c) By the length of a phase of life.
(d) By the average age of marriage.

2. What are the ages of youth?
(a) 0-21.
(b) 0-12.
(c) 0-18.
(d) 0-16.

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

4. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?
(a) Peer personality.
(b) Constellation experiences.
(c) Age location.
(d) Comin-of-age experiences.

5. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Richard Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

2. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

3. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?

4. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?

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

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