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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?
(a) Elderhood.
(b) Youth.
(c) Rising adults.
(d) Midlifers.

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

3. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

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

6. Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689?
(a) Gray Champion.
(b) John Hawthorne.
(c) Simon Bradstreet.
(d) Edmund Andros.

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

8. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?
(a) 30-34.
(b) 35-39.
(c) 25-29.
(d) 20-24.

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

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

11. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) 28.
(b) 42.
(c) 36.
(d) 52.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the ages of youth?

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

4. What were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?

5. Who said that America's foreign policy since 1776 has alternated between extroversion and introversion?

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