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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?

2. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?

3. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?

4. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?

5. What year was the Apollo moon landing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define cohort.

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

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

6. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?

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

8. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

10. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the correspondence between recurring patterns in generational constellations and recurring types of American historical events of the first four great periods of American crisis.

Essay Topic 2

List at least six significant facts about the Compromiser Generation of the Revolutionary Cycle. Why was the War of 1812 significant? How did women's roles change? What new vocabulary did they introduce? Where did they settle? What were their feelings about children? Answer these or explain any other six Compromiser facts.

Essay Topic 3

In the midst of a Crisis Era, in the turning point years of 1937 to 1943, how did Americans view the future? What was the mentality of that view? How was the future to be accomplished? How was each generation involved?

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