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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. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) 42.
(b) 28.
(c) 36.
(d) 52.

2. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?
(a) The raising of their children.
(b) The embrace of their religion.
(c) Their rebellion against the English monarchy.
(d) Their emigration to America.

3. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(b) He'd find it calming.
(c) He'd find it terrifying.
(d) He'd find it inspiring.

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

5. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?
(a) The Consciousness Revolution.
(b) The Woodstock generation.
(c) The Hippy Movement.
(d) The War on Drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the ages for midlife?

2. What is the central role of elderhood?

3. How many G.I. Presidents were there?

4. What person influenced 1960 childhood?

5. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is a generational constellation?

5. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

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

8. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

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

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