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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. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Anthony Lewis.
(c) John Kennedy.
(d) Douglas MacArthur.

2. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Gail Sheehy.
(d) Cheryl Merser.

3. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?
(a) A natural disaster.
(b) A social moment.
(c) A burgeoning new organization.
(d) A crisis.

4. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?
(a) 10-25.
(b) 19-35.
(c) 17-33.
(d) 15-30.

5. 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 generation.
(b) A lifecycle.
(c) A statistical generation.
(d) A constellation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

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

3. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?

4. What is true of cohort-membership?

5. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

6. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?

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

8. To whom did Americans turn during all four of its secular crises?

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

10. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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