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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

2. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?

3. What triggered the Thirty Years War?

4. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?

5. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the attitude towards children from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

7. How is the authors' approach to defining American generations different from most other scholars?

8. What are some timeless denominators of the human lifecycle?

9. What is peer personality?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beginning with the Armada Crisis, summarize the five secular events which marked "the swift and sweeping change in the secular world." How did each begin? How did each end? What men were rising-adult leaders during each?

Essay Topic 2

Explain the correspondence between recurring patterns in generational constellations and recurring types of American historical events of the first four great periods of American crisis.

Essay Topic 3

Summarize the so-called "Second American Revolution." Who were the important people involved? What were the significant events? What was the result of the final outcome?

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