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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cycle in America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?
(a) Sam Ervin.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) William Wirtz.
(d) K. Warner Schaie.

2. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?
(a) 40-44.
(b) 38-42.
(c) 35-40.
(d) 42-46.

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

4. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?
(a) 20-24.
(b) 30-34.
(c) 35-39.
(d) 25-29.

5. 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 generation.
(c) A constellation.
(d) A statistical generation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central role of midlife?

2. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?

3. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?

4. What answer is not a generational type?

5. What is true of cohort-membership?

(see the answer key)

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