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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. How many years are there in the life cycle of one generational constellation?
(a) 27.
(b) 25.
(c) 20.
(d) 22.

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

3. What are the dates of the Armada Crisis?
(a) 1580-1588.
(b) 1579-1587.
(c) 1582-1590.
(d) 1581-1589.

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

5. What are children living home after college called?
(a) Bad penny.
(b) Bounce back.
(c) Boomerang.
(d) Rubber band.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?

2. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?

3. What is the central role of midlife?

4. Which answer is not a biological phase of aging?

5. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a generational constellation?

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

3. What is peer personality?

4. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

6. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

7. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

9. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

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

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