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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?
(a) Split between Republican and Democrat.
(b) Mostly Independent.
(c) Heavily Democrat.
(d) Heavily Republican.

4. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?
(a) Sam Ervin.
(b) William Wirtz.
(c) Adlai Stevenson.
(d) K. Warner Schaie.

5. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

6. Children are unfortunate to be born in which era?
(a) Crisis.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Outer-driven.
(d) Inner-driven.

7. What did George Bush do during WWII?
(a) He was a Navy fighter pilot.
(b) He was a Marine fighter pilot.
(c) He was an Air Force figher pilot.
(d) He was an Army Ranger.

8. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?
(a) John Kennedy.
(b) Anthony Lewis.
(c) Douglas MacArthur.
(d) Richard Nixon.

9. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?
(a) Nurturing children.
(b) Hostility towards children.
(c) Abandoning children.
(d) Teaching young children.

10. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1843-1859.
(b) 1860-1882.
(c) 1822-1842.
(d) 1792-1821.

11. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

12. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?
(a) Spiritual awakening.
(b) Social moment.
(c) Secular crisis.
(d) Consciousness Revolution.

13. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?
(a) The Enlightenment Revolution.
(b) The Glorious Revolution.
(c) The Glorious Generation.
(d) The Enlightenment Generation.

14. 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 diagonal.
(b) As an ellipse.
(c) On the vertical.
(d) On the horizontal.

15. What is the central role of rising adulthood?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Activity.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Dependence.

Short Answer Questions

1. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?

2. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

3. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?

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

5. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

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