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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many constellational eras does a typical person experience in his or her life span?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. What was the generation type for the Silent generation in the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Adaptive.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Civic.
(d) Idealist.

3. What is a paradigm?
(a) A dilemma.
(b) A chart.
(c) A model.
(d) A contradiction.

4. What was the generation type for the 13ers generation in the Millennial Cycle?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Civic.
(d) Adaptive.

5. Which was not an Reactive lifecycle?
(a) Awakener.
(b) Lost.
(c) Liberty.
(d) Gilded.

6. What is a Civic's style of leadership?
(a) Righteous, austere.
(b) Process fixated, pluralistic.
(c) Pragmatic, cautious.
(d) Grand, expansive.

7. To which generation did Harry Truman belong?
(a) Lost.
(b) G.I.
(c) Missionary.
(d) Silent.

8. What generation type is elder during a Crisis era?
(a) Civic.
(b) Adaptive.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Idealist.

9. Which was not an Awakening Era?
(a) Colonial Awakening.
(b) Puritan Awakening.
(c) Great Awakening.
(d) Boom Awakening.

10. Which generation of the Civil War Cycle were first to be delivered by doctors rather than midwives?
(a) Reactionaries.
(b) Gildeds.
(c) Progressives.
(d) Transcendentals.

11. In 1741, who did the Boston Evening Post report to be a "madman just broke from his chains"?
(a) Richard Bushman.
(b) Jonathan Mayhew.
(c) William Tennent.
(d) James Davenport.

12. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Boom generation during the Millennial Cycle?
(a) Daniel Ortega.
(b) Princess Di.
(c) Mick Jagger.
(d) Prince Charles.

13. Which was not an Civic lifecycle?
(a) Glorious.
(b) Republican.
(c) G.I.
(d) Gilded.

14. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the 13ers generation during the Millennial Cycle?
(a) Lech Walesa.
(b) Boris Becker.
(c) Julian Lennon.
(d) Wuer Kaixi.

15. How many Boomer men saw combat in Vietnam?
(a) 1 in 6.
(b) 1 in 21.
(c) 1 in 10.
(d) 1 in 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was not an American history cycle?

2. In the late 1960s, who found a strong tie between young men and their mothers?

3. Which was not an Outer-Driven Era?

4. What is not a principal endowment of an Idealist generation?

5. Who was not a sample member of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?

(see the answer keys)

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