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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life along the Generational Diagonal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(b) He'd find it inspiring.
(c) He'd find it terrifying.
(d) He'd find it calming.

2. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Jane Addams.
(b) Ellen Lagemann.
(c) Malcolm Cowley.
(d) Daniel Levinson.

3. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Conformist.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Reclusive.
(d) Powerful.

4. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) Woodrow Wilson's.
(b) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower's.
(d) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Passages?

2. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?

3. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?

4. Who wrote Grown-ups?

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

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