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

2. What answer is not a generational type?
(a) Millennialist.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Adpative.

3. Who wrote Grown-ups?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Gail Sheehy.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Erik Erikson.

4. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?
(a) 25.
(b) 20.
(c) 27.
(d) 22.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?

2. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?

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

4. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?

5. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Cheryl Merser realize after reading the book Passages?

2. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

3. Define life-course fallacy.

4. What are some timeless denominators of the human lifecycle?

5. How is the authors' approach to defining American generations different from most other scholars?

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

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

8. What is peer personality?

9. What was the attitude towards children from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s?

10. How is Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts significant?

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