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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. What is the central role of youth?
(a) Dependence.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Stewardship.
(d) Activity.

2. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?
(a) Reactives.
(b) Adaptives.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Civics.

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

4. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Gail Sheehy.
(d) Daniel Levinson.

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What answer is not a generational type?

3. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?

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

5. When were boomers born?

(see the answer key)

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