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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. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

2. What is affected by how students are taught?

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

4. Which generation types was Martin Luther?

5. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

3. What is a generational constellation?

4. Describe Civics during a crisis era.

5. Define life-course fallacy.

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

7. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

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

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

10. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was the Atomic Age ushered into the world? What were the events? Who were the major people involved? What was the public sentiment?

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

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?

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