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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 is an Adaptive's idea of God?

2. Which was not an Civic lifecycle?

3. What is a Reactive's preoccupation in elderhood?

4. What generation type is youth during an Awakening era?

5. Which generation type was born from 1860-1882?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Boom generation's only common consensus about the Vietnam conflict?

2. What was Black Friday?

3. How did the roles of Awakener women change during the Revolutionary Cycle?

4. Who was Charles Finney?

5. What are "generational endowments"?

6. What was the 1950s image of the future?

7. Between 1850 and 1855, what famous books did Transcendental authors publish?

8. What was the mood in America from the middle to late 1980s?

9. How was the Boom generation of the Millennial Cycle a generation of worsening trends?

10. What happened to academic grades during the Millennial Cycle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List at least six significant facts about the Compromiser Generation of the Revolutionary Cycle. Why was the War of 1812 significant? How did women's roles change? What new vocabulary did they introduce? Where did they settle? What were their feelings about children? Answer these or explain any other six Compromiser facts.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the child nurture relationships for the four generational types. How does childhood nurture play a major role in shaping a generation's peer personality?

Essay Topic 3

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

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