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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 it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?
(a) Secular crisis.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Social moment.
(d) Consciousness Revolution.

2. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?
(a) He'd find it inspiring.
(b) He'd find it terrifying.
(c) He'd find it calming.
(d) He'd find it incomprehensible.

3. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?
(a) 1959-1975.
(b) 1961-1977.
(c) 1964-1980.
(d) 1966-1082.

4. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Reclusive.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Conformist.

5. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Social moment.
(b) Consciousness Revolution.
(c) Secular crisis.
(d) Spiritual awakening.

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. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?

3. What person influenced 1960 childhood?

4. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?

5. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?

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