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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. What did George Bush do during WWII?
(a) He was a Navy fighter pilot.
(b) He was a Marine fighter pilot.
(c) He was an Army Ranger.
(d) He was an Air Force figher pilot.

2. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?
(a) Adaptives.
(b) Reactives.
(c) Civics.
(d) Idealists.

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

5. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?
(a) Constellation attitude.
(b) Newsreel behavior.
(c) Peer personaltity.
(d) Generations distinctives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are children living home after college called?

2. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?

3. Which type of generational child was suffocated and overprotected?

4. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?

5. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is a generational constellation?

8. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

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

10. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?

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