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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 year were the first G.I. babies born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1901.

2. What is the central role of rising adulthood?
(a) Activity.
(b) Dependence.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Stewardship.

3. What triggered the Thirty Years War?
(a) Cromwell's Revolution.
(b) Martin Luther's 95 Theses.
(c) Radical Catholicism throughout Europe.
(d) Radical Protestantism throughout Europe.

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

5. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?
(a) The increase in distribution of goods.
(b) The death of lost city kids.
(c) The rise in crime.
(d) The speed of city living.

Short Answer 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?

2. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?

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

4. Who wrote Passages?

5. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Define cohort.

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

4. What is a generational constellation?

5. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

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

7. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

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

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

10. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?

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