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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cycle in America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Youth and rising adult.
(b) Rising adulthood and elderhood.
(c) Midlife and elderhood.
(d) Midlife and rising adulthood.

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

3. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?
(a) Thomas Jefferson.
(b) Francis Bacon.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

4. What are the ages of youth?
(a) 0-16.
(b) 0-18.
(c) 0-21.
(d) 0-12.

5. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?
(a) Age location.
(b) Constellation experiences.
(c) Peer personality.
(d) Comin-of-age experiences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?

2. Which answer is not a biological phase of aging?

3. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

4. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?

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

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