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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 is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Newt Gingrich.
(d) Walter Mondale.

2. Who wrote Grown-ups?
(a) Daniel Levinson.
(b) Cheryl Merser.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

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

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

5. How many G.I. Presidents were there?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is true of cohort-membership?

3. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?

4. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?

5. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?

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