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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. Which answer is not a biological phase of aging?
(a) Puberty.
(b) Senescence.
(c) Growth.
(d) Birth.

2. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. How many G.I. Presidents were there?
(a) 7.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Grown-ups?

2. What are children living home after college called?

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

4. What year were the first G.I. babies born?

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

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