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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. What is true of cohort-membership?
(a) It is voluntary.
(b) It is involuntary.
(c) It is age related.
(d) It chooses you.

2. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?
(a) Generations distinctives.
(b) Constellation attitude.
(c) Newsreel behavior.
(d) Peer personaltity.

3. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

4. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?
(a) Micheal Dukakis.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Jim Thompson.
(d) John Kennedy.

5. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) Gerald Ford.

Short Answer Questions

1. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?

2. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?

3. What is the central role of elderhood?

4. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?

5. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?

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