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

2. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?
(a) Neil Howe.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) William Strauss.
(d) Guieseppe Ferrari.

3. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Youth and rising adult.
(b) Rising adulthood and elderhood.
(c) Midlife and rising adulthood.
(d) Midlife and elderhood.

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

5. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?
(a) According to the latest child rearing experts.
(b) With little or no direction, letting the children raise themselves.
(c) In a manner opposite to that in which they themselves were raised.
(d) In the same manner in which they themselves were raised.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?

2. What year were the first G.I. babies born?

3. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?

4. What are children living home after college called?

5. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?

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