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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 it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Spiritual awakening.
(b) Consciousness Revolution.
(c) Secular crisis.
(d) Social moment.

2. What were the ages of the G.I. Generation on Pearl Harbor Sunday?
(a) birth-40.
(b) 35-65.
(c) 21-45.
(d) 17-34.

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

4. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?
(a) The 60s.
(b) The 50s.
(c) The 80s.
(d) The 70s.

5. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Social Moments.
(b) Generational phases.
(c) Interactive critcal events.
(d) Corresponding idealism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?

3. Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689?

4. What triggered the Thirty Years War?

5. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

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

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

9. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

10. What is a generational constellation?

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