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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. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) 36.
(b) 52.
(c) 42.
(d) 28.

2. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?
(a) Rising adults.
(b) Midlifers.
(c) Youth.
(d) Elderhood.

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

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

5. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
(a) Marilyn Monroe.
(b) Dr. Spock.
(c) Dr. Suess.
(d) President Eisenhower.

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

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

5. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?

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