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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 a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A lifecycle.
(b) A constellation.
(c) A generation.
(d) A statistical generation.

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

3. What year were the first G.I. babies born?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1910.

4. What answer is not a generational type?
(a) Adpative.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Millennialist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote Grown-ups?

2. In each constellation, what do the peer personalities each possess?

3. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?

4. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

5. Who wrote Passages?

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