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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life along the Generational Diagonal.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Reclusive.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Conformist.

3. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?
(a) 1964-1980.
(b) 1961-1977.
(c) 1959-1975.
(d) 1966-1082.

4. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

5. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) Woodrow Wilson's.
(b) Dwight Eisenhower's.
(c) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.
(d) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did George Bush do during WWII?

3. What is affected by how students are taught?

4. What is true of cohort-membership?

5. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?

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