View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true of cohort-membership?
(a) It is voluntary.
(b) It chooses you.
(c) It is involuntary.
(d) It is age related.

2. 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 statistical generation.
(d) A lifecycle.

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

4. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Malcolm Cowley.
(b) Ellen Lagemann.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Jane Addams.

5. Which generation types was Martin Luther?
(a) Civic.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Adaptive.
(d) Reactive.

6. What triggered the Thirty Years War?
(a) Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
(b) Radical Catholicism throughout Europe.
(c) Radical Protestantism throughout Europe.
(d) Cromwell's Revolution.

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

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

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

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

11. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?
(a) Newt Gingrich.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Walter Mondale.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

12. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it inspiring.
(b) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(c) He'd find it calming.
(d) He'd find it terrifying.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

2. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?

3. In the 1970s, what image did movie makers emphasis?

4. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?

5. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 385 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample