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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is affected by how students are taught?
(a) What they do.
(b) What they believe.
(c) How they teach.
(d) Their politics.

2. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Social moment.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Secular crisis.
(d) Consciousness Revolution.

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

4. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?
(a) James Conroy.
(b) Philip Stevenson.
(c) John Foxe.
(d) Thomas Hanover.

5. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?
(a) That the old era was now over.
(b) That they had broken their convenant with God.
(c) That things were due to get better.
(d) That judgment was to soon come.

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

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

8. In the 1970s, what image did movie makers emphasis?
(a) Corruption of government.
(b) Abandonment of the elderly.
(c) Dissolution of teens.
(d) Distressed childhood.

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

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

11. What is the central role of rising adulthood?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Activity.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Dependence.

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

13. What are the dates of the Armada Crisis?
(a) 1582-1590.
(b) 1579-1587.
(c) 1581-1589.
(d) 1580-1588.

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

15. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?
(a) Lifecycle.
(b) Constellation.
(c) Social moments.
(d) Peer personality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?

2. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?

3. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?

4. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?

5. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?

(see the answer keys)

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