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

2. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?
(a) Adlai Stevenson.
(b) William Wirtz.
(c) Sam Ervin.
(d) K. Warner Schaie.

3. In each constellation, what do the peer personalities each possess?
(a) Their own mood.
(b) Their own morals.
(c) Their own philosoplies.
(d) Their own work ethic.

4. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?
(a) Adaptives.
(b) Idealists.
(c) Civics.
(d) Reactives.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?

2. What triggered the Thirty Years War?

3. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?

4. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?

5. What is true of cohort-membership?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

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

3. Define cohort.

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

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

6. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

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

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

9. How were the Civics of the Glorious Generation in the Colonial Cycle looked on?

10. Define life-course fallacy.

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