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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 true of cohort-membership?
(a) It is age related.
(b) It chooses you.
(c) It is voluntary.
(d) It is involuntary.

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

3. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Anthony Lewis.
(c) Ted Kennedy.
(d) John Kennedy.

4. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Ronald Reagan.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

5. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?
(a) Awakening.
(b) Outer-Driven.
(c) Inner-Driven.
(d) Crisis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ages of youth?

2. What year were the first G.I. babies born?

3. What were the ages of the G.I. Generation on Pearl Harbor Sunday?

4. What is the central role of elderhood?

5. What year was the Apollo moon landing?

Short Essay Questions

1. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?

2. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

3. How did the young Adaptive generation of those under 18 years respond to the Colonial Cycle?

4. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

5. Define cohort.

6. What is a generational constellation?

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

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

9. What were the two social moments of the Reformation Cycle?

10. What other alternating patterns in American history move synchronously between the push and pull of different generations?

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