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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. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?
(a) 1961-1977.
(b) 1966-1082.
(c) 1959-1975.
(d) 1964-1980.

2. Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689?
(a) Gray Champion.
(b) Edmund Andros.
(c) Simon Bradstreet.
(d) John Hawthorne.

3. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?
(a) Social moments.
(b) Constellation.
(c) Peer personality.
(d) Lifecycle.

4. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?
(a) 40.
(b) 42.
(c) 44.
(d) 38.

5. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?
(a) Thomas Hanover.
(b) John Foxe.
(c) Philip Stevenson.
(d) James Conroy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

2. Who wrote Passages?

3. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?

4. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

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

3. What are the central roles for the four phases of a generation?

4. How is Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts significant?

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

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

7. What is a generational constellation?

8. What are the four phases of one generation?

9. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

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

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