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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?
(a) Education.
(b) Drunk driving.
(c) Substance abuse.
(d) Violent crimes.

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

3. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A constellation.
(b) A statistical generation.
(c) A generation.
(d) A lifecycle.

4. How many G.I. Presidents were there?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 8.
(d) 9.

5. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?
(a) The death of lost city kids.
(b) The increase in distribution of goods.
(c) The rise in crime.
(d) The speed of city living.

6. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) John Marshall.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

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

8. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Generational phases.
(b) Social Moments.
(c) Interactive critcal events.
(d) Corresponding idealism.

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

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

11. What year was the Apollo moon landing?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1967.

12. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1822-1842.
(b) 1792-1821.
(c) 1860-1882.
(d) 1843-1859.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?

2. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

3. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?

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

5. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?

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