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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What triggered the Thirty Years War?
(a) Radical Protestantism throughout Europe.
(b) Cromwell's Revolution.
(c) Radical Catholicism throughout Europe.
(d) Martin Luther's 95 Theses.

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

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

4. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?
(a) The Woodstock generation.
(b) The Hippy Movement.
(c) The War on Drugs.
(d) The Consciousness Revolution.

5. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?
(a) Walter Mondale.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Newt Gingrich.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

6. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?
(a) Their emigration to America.
(b) The embrace of their religion.
(c) Their rebellion against the English monarchy.
(d) The raising of their children.

7. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Cheryl Merser.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

8. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?
(a) 800,000.
(b) 900,000.
(c) 700,000.
(d) 600,000.

9. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?
(a) The Glorious Revolution.
(b) The Enlightenment Revolution.
(c) The Glorious Generation.
(d) The Enlightenment Generation.

10. When were boomers born?
(a) 1944-1963.
(b) 1946-1964.
(c) 1940-1960.
(d) 1945-1966.

11. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Pragmatic.
(b) Reclusive.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Conformist.

12. Which answer is not a biological phase of aging?
(a) Birth.
(b) Senescence.
(c) Growth.
(d) Puberty.

13. What are the birth dates for the Reformation generation?
(a) 1485-1515.
(b) 1482-1511.
(c) 1483-1509.
(d) 1480-1510.

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

15. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Anthony Lewis.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Richard Nixon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?

2. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

3. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

4. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?

5. What is the central role of midlife?

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