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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 is true of cohort-membership?

2. Which children grow up during increasing adult control?

3. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

4. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?

5. What answer is not a generational type?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Beginning with the Reformation Awakening, summarize the five spiritual awakenings of America. What men were rising-adult leaders during each awakening?

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