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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. Which was not an Reactive lifecycle?
(a) Awakener.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Gilded.
(d) Lost.

2. What word was not coined during the Civil War Cycle?
(a) Medium.
(b) Seance.
(c) Clairvoyance.
(d) Specter.

3. Who was not a sample member of the Lost generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Orville Wright.
(b) Geroge Patton.
(c) Babe Ruth.
(d) Earl Warren.

4. Which generation was typically estranged from their fathers?
(a) Gildeds.
(b) Progressives.
(c) Transcendentals.
(d) Reactionaries.

5. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Boom generation during the Millennial Cycle?
(a) Princess Di.
(b) Prince Charles.
(c) Mick Jagger.
(d) Daniel Ortega.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a paradigm?

2. Who was not a sample member of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?

3. Whose Presidential bid failed in 1824?

4. Which was not an American history cycle?

5. What is not a principal endowment of a Reactive generation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the attitude towards public schools in the Millennial Cycle?

2. During the Great Power Cycle, what American holiday tradition was initiated?

3. What were Jim Crow laws?

4. What are "generational endowments"?

5. How did the image of the future change between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s?

6. What are the time periods for the authors' predicted two future social moments?

7. What is a generation's "morphology"?

8. Why does the Awakener life cycle of the Revolutionary Cycle read like a prophecy?

9. How was the Boom generation of the Millennial Cycle a generation of worsening trends?

10. What is quantitative insight?

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