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

2. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) On the horizontal.
(b) As an ellipse.
(c) On the vertical.
(d) On the diagonal.

3. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Interactive critcal events.
(b) Social Moments.
(c) Generational phases.
(d) Corresponding idealism.

4. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?
(a) That judgment was to soon come.
(b) That they had broken their convenant with God.
(c) That the old era was now over.
(d) That things were due to get better.

5. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?
(a) In the same manner in which they themselves were raised.
(b) According to the latest child rearing experts.
(c) In a manner opposite to that in which they themselves were raised.
(d) With little or no direction, letting the children raise themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

2. Who said that America's foreign policy since 1776 has alternated between extroversion and introversion?

3. What are the dates of the Armada Crisis?

4. What are the birth dates for the Reformation generation?

5. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four phases of one generation?

2. What are the four generational types and their relationship to each other?

3. What common milestones of life are explained in the book Passages?

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

5. How do the authors treat their analysis of the generations?

6. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

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

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

9. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

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

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