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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Adaptive.
(d) Civic.
2. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Daniel Levinson.
(b) Gail Sheehy.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Cheryl Merser.
3. What is the central role of rising adulthood?
(a) Activity.
(b) Stewardship.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Dependence.
4. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) John Marshall.
5. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?
(a) The 80s.
(b) The 70s.
(c) The 60s.
(d) The 50s.
6. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?
(a) Mothers.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Peers.
7. Who led true Protestant believers to America?
(a) Oliver Cromwell.
(b) John Winthrope.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) Cotton Mather.
8. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?
(a) Mary I.
(b) James I.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Victoria.
9. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?
(a) Outer-Driven.
(b) Inner-Driven.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Crisis.
10. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?
(a) As ocean liners
(b) As bus stations
(c) As highways
(d) As trains
11. What is one generation of the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) Gilded.
(b) Cavalier.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Compromise.
12. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1843-1859.
(b) 1792-1821.
(c) 1860-1882.
(d) 1822-1842.
13. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?
(a) That judgment was to soon come.
(b) That they had broken their convenant with God.
(c) That things were due to get better.
(d) That the old era was now over.
14. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) On the vertical.
(b) On the diagonal.
(c) As an ellipse.
(d) On the horizontal.
15. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?
(a) Adaptives.
(b) Civics.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Reactives.
Short Answer Questions
1. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
2. What year were the first G.I. babies born?
3. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?
4. What is the central role of elderhood?
5. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?
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