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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 Englishman made a three year trip around the world?

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

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

4. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?

5. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?

Short Essay Questions

1. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?

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

3. What did Cheryl Merser realize after reading the book Passages?

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

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

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

7. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

8. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

10. What are the four phases of one generation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain specifically with details Figure 7-1. What is the significance of the age location in history of the Puritans, Cavaliers, Glorious, and Enlighteners?

Essay Topic 2

Using the Figure 2-2 table, thoroughly explain three lifecycle fallacies. How do these fallacies give an inaccurate view of the lifecycle?

Essay Topic 3

How was the Atomic Age ushered into the world? What were the events? Who were the major people involved? What was the public sentiment?

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