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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 plays a large role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

2. What is one generation of the Revolutionary cycle of American history?

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

4. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?

5. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Define life-course fallacy.

4. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

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

6. Define cohort.

7. What was the attitude towards children from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s?

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

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

10. What are the central roles for the four phases of a generation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain specifically the behavior and attitudes of the midlife phase of the Awakener lifecycle during the Revolutionary Cycle? Who were its leaders? What were their attitudes towards religion and politics?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Schelsinger's cycles of American history with those of the authors.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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