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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 are the ages of youth?

2. What is age-determined participation in in epochal events that occur during a lifecycle?

3. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?

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

5. What person influenced 1960 childhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the four phases of one generation?

6. What are the timespans separating the four pivotal events of American history?

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

8. Define cohort.

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

10. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the Figure 2-2 table, thoroughly explain three lifecycle fallacies. How do these fallacies give an inaccurate view of the lifecycle?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Using Figure 4-2, take a former cycle of secular crisis to spiritual awakening in American history and report the typical and specific reactions of the four generational types on the chart during those times.

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