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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. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?

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

3. What is the central role of midlife?

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

5. With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Define life-course fallacy.

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

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

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

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

9. What are the four phases of one generation?

10. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

Explain and describe the four constellational eras and their moods. Specifically apply those four constellational eras to events in American history.

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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