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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 answer is not a generational type?

2. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?

3. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?

4. What is the central role of elderhood?

5. How many G.I. Presidents were there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

3. What is peer personality?

4. Define life-course fallacy.

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

6. How is Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts significant?

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

8. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

9. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.

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

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 the correspondence between recurring patterns in generational constellations and recurring types of American historical events of the first four great periods of American crisis.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the 1961 and 1964 cohort groups from information in the text and the Figure 2-1 table. Consider aptitude tests, substance abuse, violent crimes, and drunk driving.

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