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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 might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?
(a) He'd find it terrifying.
(b) He'd find it inspiring.
(c) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(d) He'd find it calming.

2. What is one generation of the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) Gilded.
(b) Compromise.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Cavalier.

3. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?
(a) John Foxe.
(b) James Conroy.
(c) Philip Stevenson.
(d) Thomas Hanover.

4. What are the ages of youth?
(a) 0-12.
(b) 0-16.
(c) 0-21.
(d) 0-18.

5. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?
(a) That the old era was now over.
(b) That judgment was to soon come.
(c) That they had broken their convenant with God.
(d) That things were due to get better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Children are unfortunate to be born in which era?

2. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

3. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?

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

5. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define cohort.

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

3. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

5. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?

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

7. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

8. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

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

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

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