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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Past as Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?
(a) 35-40.
(b) 38-42.
(c) 42-46.
(d) 40-44.

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

3. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Daniel Levinson.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Cheryl Merser.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

4. To which generation did Stonewall Jackson belong?
(a) Progressive.
(b) Gilded.
(c) Transcendental.
(d) Reactionary.

5. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?
(a) By the average age of parenthood.
(b) By the length of a phase of life.
(c) By the average age at death.
(d) By the average age of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one generation of the Revolutionary cycle of American history?

3. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?

4. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?

5. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?

(see the answer key)

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