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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the central role of youth?
(a) Leadership.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Stewardship.
(d) Activity.

3. 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 lifecycle.
(b) A generation.
(c) A constellation.
(d) A statistical generation.

4. Which generation types was Martin Luther?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Civic.
(d) Adaptive.

5. What year were the first G.I. babies born?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1915.

6. When did Charles I take England's throne?
(a) 1631.
(b) 1629.
(c) 1628.
(d) 1630.

7. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) John Marshall.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

8. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Cheryl Merser.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Gail Sheehy.

9. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?
(a) Drunk driving.
(b) Education.
(c) Substance abuse.
(d) Violent crimes.

10. What are the dates of the Armada Crisis?
(a) 1582-1590.
(b) 1580-1588.
(c) 1581-1589.
(d) 1579-1587.

11. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?
(a) Walter Mondale.
(b) Theodore Roosevelt.
(c) Newt Gingrich.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

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

13. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Social moment.
(b) Secular crisis.
(c) Consciousness Revolution.
(d) Spiritual awakening.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?

2. What are the birth dates for the Reformation generation?

3. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?

4. What is the central role of midlife?

5. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?

(see the answer keys)

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