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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?
(a) Reactives.
(b) Civics.
(c) Adaptives.
(d) Idealists.

3. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?
(a) As highways
(b) As trains
(c) As ocean liners
(d) As bus stations

4. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?
(a) Peers.
(b) Fathers.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Mothers.

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

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

7. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?
(a) 42-46.
(b) 40-44.
(c) 35-40.
(d) 38-42.

8. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?
(a) Social moment.
(b) Secular crisis.
(c) Consciousness Revolution.
(d) Spiritual awakening.

9. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Crisis.
(c) Outer-Driven.
(d) Inner-Driven.

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

11. What were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?
(a) 1620-1641.
(b) 1618-1639.
(c) 1619-1642.
(d) 1621-1640.

12. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?
(a) Civics.
(b) Reactives.
(c) Idealists.
(d) Adaptives.

13. 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 horizontal.
(b) As an ellipse.
(c) On the vertical.
(d) On the diagonal.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?

2. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?

3. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?

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

5. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?

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