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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. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?
(a) Heavily Democrat.
(b) Split between Republican and Democrat.
(c) Mostly Independent.
(d) Heavily Republican.

2. Which generation types was Martin Luther?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Civic.
(d) Adaptive.

3. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
(a) A statistical generation.
(b) A constellation.
(c) A lifecycle.
(d) A generation.

4. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Dr. Spock.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

5. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1860-1882.
(b) 1843-1859.
(c) 1792-1821.
(d) 1822-1842.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affected by how students are taught?

2. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?

3. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?

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

5. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Cheryl Merser realize after reading the book Passages?

2. Define life-course fallacy.

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

4. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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