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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.
(b) Woodrow Wilson's.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower's.
(d) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.

4. Children are unfortunate to be born in which era?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Inner-driven.
(c) Crisis.
(d) Outer-driven.

5. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?
(a) The 70s.
(b) The 50s.
(c) The 80s.
(d) The 60s.

6. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?
(a) 22.
(b) 25.
(c) 27.
(d) 20.

7. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?
(a) Newsreel behavior.
(b) Generations distinctives.
(c) Peer personaltity.
(d) Constellation attitude.

8. What is the central role of midlife?
(a) Leadership.
(b) Activity.
(c) Dependence.
(d) Stewardship.

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

10. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?
(a) Philips.
(b) Drake.
(c) Edwards.
(d) Hawkins.

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

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

13. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Gail Sheehy.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Cheryl Merser.

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

15. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?
(a) With triumph.
(b) With war.
(c) With new ideals.
(d) With reforms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?

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

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

4. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

5. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?

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