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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?
(a) Fathers.
(b) Peers.
(c) Siblings.
(d) Mothers.

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

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

4. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?
(a) The Consciousness Revolution.
(b) The War on Drugs.
(c) The Woodstock generation.
(d) The Hippy Movement.

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

6. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?
(a) Hawkins.
(b) Drake.
(c) Edwards.
(d) Philips.

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

8. When did Charles I take England's throne?
(a) 1629.
(b) 1631.
(c) 1628.
(d) 1630.

9. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?
(a) With war.
(b) With triumph.
(c) With reforms.
(d) With new ideals.

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?

2. In each constellation, what do the peer personalities each possess?

3. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

4. Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689?

5. What is the central role of midlife?

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