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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 complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) Ted Kennedy.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Anthony Lewis.
(d) John Kennedy.

2. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Conformist.
(c) Pragmatic.
(d) Reclusive.

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

4. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it calming.
(b) He'd find it inspiring.
(c) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(d) He'd find it terrifying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charles I take England's throne?

2. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?

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

4. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?

5. What is the central role of midlife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Klingberg's periods of activity cycle differ from the authors' of the text?

4. Define the word generation as the authors see it.

5. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

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

7. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

8. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

9. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

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