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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. In each constellation, what do the peer personalities each possess?
(a) Their own philosoplies.
(b) Their own work ethic.
(c) Their own mood.
(d) Their own morals.

2. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) On the diagonal.
(b) As an ellipse.
(c) On the horizontal.
(d) On the vertical.

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

4. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?
(a) Age-bracket fallacy.
(b) Life-course fallacy.
(c) Intersecting fallacy.
(d) Intrinsic connection fallacy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?

2. Who wrote Grown-ups?

3. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?

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

5. Who wrote Passages?

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