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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. Which was not an Outer-Driven Era?

2. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?

3. Which generation was typically estranged from their fathers?

4. What is a Reactive's preoccupation in elderhood?

5. What generation type is youth during an Awakening era?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the second social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

2. How did the image of the future change between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s?

3. Between 1850 and 1855, what famous books did Transcendental authors publish?

4. What was the "settlement movement"?

5. Define Manifest Destiny.

6. What was the 13er generation's composition of families during the Millennial Cycle?

7. What was the mood in America from the middle to late 1980s?

8. Describe the first social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

9. What does this quote mean: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"?

10. Why does the Awakener life cycle of the Revolutionary Cycle read like a prophecy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain with specific detail how the Reformation Cycle's two social moments prepared for the Puritans of the Colonial Cycle.

Essay Topic 2

Explain with a specific example how generational awareness applies not only to where a cohort-group finds itself today, but also to where it is expected to go tomorrow.

Essay Topic 3

Explain specifically the behavior and attitudes of the midlife phase of the Awakener lifecycle during the Revolutionary Cycle? Who were its leaders? What were their attitudes towards religion and politics?

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