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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 the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?
(a) 10-25.
(b) 19-35.
(c) 17-33.
(d) 15-30.

2. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?
(a) Comin-of-age experiences.
(b) Peer personality.
(c) Constellation experiences.
(d) Age location.

3. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?
(a) The death of lost city kids.
(b) The rise in crime.
(c) The increase in distribution of goods.
(d) The speed of city living.

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

5. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?
(a) Abandoning children.
(b) Nurturing children.
(c) Hostility towards children.
(d) Teaching young children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?

3. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?

4. When were boomers born?

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

(see the answer key)

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