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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 is the central role of youth?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Leadership.
(c) Activity.
(d) Dependence.

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

3. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?
(a) 17-33.
(b) 19-35.
(c) 15-30.
(d) 10-25.

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

5. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

2. Who wrote Grown-ups?

3. What answer is not a generational type?

4. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?

5. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?

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

6. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

8. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?

9. What were the two social moments of the Reformation Cycle?

10. Define life-course fallacy.

(see the answer keys)

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