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

2. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?

3. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?

4. Who wrote Exile's Return?

5. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

8. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

9. Define cohort.

10. Define the word generation as the authors see it.

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Describe the child nurture relationships for the four generational types. How does childhood nurture play a major role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

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