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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who led true Protestant believers to America?
(a) Cotton Mather.
(b) John Winthrope.
(c) Oliver Cromwell.
(d) Roger Williams.

4. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?
(a) By the average age at death.
(b) By the length of a phase of life.
(c) By the average age of marriage.
(d) By the average age of parenthood.

5. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Cheryl Merser.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

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

7. What were the ages of the G.I. Generation on Pearl Harbor Sunday?
(a) birth-40.
(b) 21-45.
(c) 17-34.
(d) 35-65.

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

9. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?
(a) Victoria.
(b) Mary I.
(c) James I.
(d) Elizabeth.

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

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

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

13. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?
(a) 1517-1539.
(b) 1518-1541.
(c) 1516-1538.
(d) 1515-1540.

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

15. 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) On the vertical.
(c) On the diagonal.
(d) As an ellipse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

2. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?

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

4. What is the central role of midlife?

5. When did Charles I take England's throne?

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