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

2. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

3. What is affected by how students are taught?

4. What triggered the Thirty Years War?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the authors treat their analysis of the generations?

2. What is a generational constellation?

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

4. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?

5. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

6. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

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

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

10. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain with a specific example how generational awareness applies not only to where a cohort-group finds itself today, but also to where it is expected to go tomorrow.

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

Explain with specific detail how the Reformation Cycle's two social moments prepared for the Puritans of the Colonial Cycle.

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