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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 an Air Force figher pilot.
(b) He was a Navy fighter pilot.
(c) He was an Army Ranger.
(d) He was a Marine fighter pilot.

2. Which generation types was Martin Luther?
(a) Civic.
(b) Idealist.
(c) Adaptive.
(d) Reactive.

3. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?
(a) Crisis.
(b) Outer-Driven.
(c) Awakening.
(d) Inner-Driven.

4. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Rising adulthood and elderhood.
(b) Youth and rising adult.
(c) Midlife and elderhood.
(d) Midlife and rising adulthood.

5. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?
(a) Teaching young children.
(b) Abandoning children.
(c) Hostility towards children.
(d) Nurturing children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?

2. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?

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

4. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?

5. Who said that America's foreign policy since 1776 has alternated between extroversion and introversion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

4. Define life-course fallacy.

5. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

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

8. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

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

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

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