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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Conformist.
(d) Reclusive.

4. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?
(a) Adaptive.
(b) Civic.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Reactive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ages of youth?

2. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?

3. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?

4. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the word generation as the authors see it.

2. What is a generational constellation?

3. To whom did Americans turn during all four of its secular crises?

4. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

5. What is peer personality?

6. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?

7. How were the Civics of the Glorious Generation in the Colonial Cycle looked on?

8. As America entered an Inner-Driven era in 1905, how did attitudes towards Lost city kids change?

9. Define cohort.

10. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

(see the answer keys)

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