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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. What is the central role of rising adulthood?

3. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?

4. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

5. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

3. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

5. Define life-course fallacy.

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

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

8. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

10. Describe Reactives in an inner-driven era.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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