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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?
(a) A natural disaster.
(b) A burgeoning new organization.
(c) A social moment.
(d) A crisis.

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

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 generation.
(b) A constellation.
(c) A lifecycle.
(d) A statistical generation.

4. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?
(a) Dwight Eisenhower.
(b) Ronald Reagan.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John Kennedy.

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

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

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

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

9. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?
(a) Intersecting fallacy.
(b) Intrinsic connection fallacy.
(c) Age-bracket fallacy.
(d) Life-course fallacy.

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

11. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?
(a) Adaptives.
(b) Reactives.
(c) Civics.
(d) Idealists.

12. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.
(b) Woodrow Wilson's.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower's.
(d) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.

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

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

15. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?
(a) John Kennedy.
(b) Micheal Dukakis.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Jim Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affected by how students are taught?

2. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

3. What plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

4. Who led true Protestant believers to America?

5. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?

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