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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 are the ages of youth?

2. Who wrote Grown-ups?

3. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?

4. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?

5. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

Short Essay Questions

1. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

2. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

3. What are the four phases of one generation?

4. What are some timeless denominators of the human lifecycle?

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

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

7. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

8. To whom did Americans turn during all four of its secular crises?

9. How did the young Adaptive generation of those under 18 years respond to the Colonial Cycle?

10. Define cohort.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Summarize the so-called "Second American Revolution." Who were the important people involved? What were the significant events? What was the result of the final outcome?

Essay Topic 2

Beginning with the Armada Crisis, summarize the five secular events which marked "the swift and sweeping change in the secular world." How did each begin? How did each end? What men were rising-adult leaders during each?

Essay Topic 3

With their passing, the Transcendentals left America an enduring projection of their peer personality. How specifically did Transcendentals affect American thought and behavior for years to come.

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