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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through From Puritans to Millennials and Beyond.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Daniel Levinson.
(b) Jane Addams.
(c) Malcolm Cowley.
(d) Ellen Lagemann.

2. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?
(a) John Marshall.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Ted Kennedy.

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

4. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?
(a) As trains
(b) As bus stations
(c) As ocean liners
(d) As highways

5. Who said that America's foreign policy since 1776 has alternated between extroversion and introversion?
(a) Klingberg.
(b) Milton.
(c) Schlesinger.
(d) Overheiser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?

2. When were boomers born?

3. What person influenced 1960 childhood?

4. What is the central role of youth?

5. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?

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