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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 do the authors choose the length of a generation?

2. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?

3. How many generations form a generational "constellation"?

4. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?

5. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.

7. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

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

10. What is a generational constellation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the midst of a Crisis Era, in the turning point years of 1937 to 1943, how did Americans view the future? What was the mentality of that view? How was the future to be accomplished? How was each generation involved?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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