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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?
(a) Anthony Lewis.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) John Kennedy.

2. What are the ages for midlife?
(a) 40-60.
(b) 35-55.
(c) 44-65.
(d) 50-70.

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

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

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

6. 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.

7. What plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?
(a) Religious beliefs.
(b) Current events.
(c) Family structure.
(d) Childhood nurture.

8. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?
(a) He'd find it calming.
(b) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(c) He'd find it inspiring.
(d) He'd find it terrifying.

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

10. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
(a) Dr. Spock.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Dr. Suess.
(d) President Eisenhower.

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

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

13. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Gail Sheehy.
(b) Cheryl Merser.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Daniel Levinson.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Reading vertically up any single column of Figure 2-2 demonstrates which fallacy?

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

3. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?

4. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?

5. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?

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