View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the ages for midlife?
(a) 40-60.
(b) 44-65.
(c) 50-70.
(d) 35-55.

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

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

5. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?
(a) Split between Republican and Democrat.
(b) Heavily Republican.
(c) Mostly Independent.
(d) Heavily Democrat.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What are the ages of youth?

5. What answer is not a generational type?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 158 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample