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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 a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A statistical generation.
(b) A generation.
(c) A lifecycle.
(d) A constellation.

2. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?
(a) As ocean liners
(b) As bus stations
(c) As highways
(d) As trains

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?

2. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?

3. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?

4. What triggered the Thirty Years War?

5. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

2. How does Klingberg's periods of activity cycle differ from the authors' of the text?

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

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

5. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

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

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

9. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

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

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