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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?
(a) 27.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 22.

3. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?
(a) The embrace of their religion.
(b) The raising of their children.
(c) Their emigration to America.
(d) Their rebellion against the English monarchy.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?

2. What are the ages for midlife?

3. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

4. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. As America entered an Inner-Driven era in 1905, how did attitudes towards Lost city kids change?

2. Define the word generation as the authors see it.

3. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?

4. What common milestones of life are explained in the book Passages?

5. What are the four generational types and their relationship to each other?

6. Define life-course fallacy.

7. How do the authors treat their analysis of the generations?

8. How is Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts significant?

9. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?

10. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

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