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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?
(a) Religious beliefs.
(b) Current events.
(c) Family structure.
(d) Childhood nurture.

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

7. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?
(a) K. Warner Schaie.
(b) Sam Ervin.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) William Wirtz.

8. What are the ages of youth?
(a) 0-21.
(b) 0-16.
(c) 0-18.
(d) 0-12.

9. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?
(a) George Bush.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Micheal Dukakis.
(d) Jim Thompson.

10. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A lifecycle.
(b) A generation.
(c) A statistical generation.
(d) A constellation.

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

12. When did Charles I take England's throne?
(a) 1631.
(b) 1629.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1628.

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

14. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Civic.
(c) Adaptive.
(d) Idealist.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?

3. What were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?

4. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

5. What is the central role of rising adulthood?

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