View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the ages for midlife?
(a) 40-60.
(b) 50-70.
(c) 44-65.
(d) 35-55.

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

3. What is affected by how students are taught?
(a) What they do.
(b) Their politics.
(c) What they believe.
(d) How they teach.

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

5. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?
(a) Peer personality.
(b) Constellation.
(c) Social moments.
(d) Lifecycle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?

3. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

4. What is the central role of elderhood?

5. What is the central role of midlife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the timespans separating the four pivotal events of American history?

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

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

4. What are the central roles for the four phases of a generation?

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

6. How does Klingberg's periods of activity cycle differ from the authors' of the text?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 711 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample