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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 was not a prominent foreign peer of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?

2. What is an Adaptive's preoccupation in elderhood?

3. Which was not an Inner-Driven era?

4. Which was not an Civic lifecycle?

5. Whose Presidential bid failed in 1824?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this quote mean: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"?

2. What was Black Friday?

3. Why does the Awakener life cycle of the Revolutionary Cycle read like a prophecy?

4. What was the "New Nutrition" of the Great Power Cycle?

5. What was the 13er generation's attitude toward domestic activity during the Millennial Cycle?

6. What were Jim Crow laws?

7. Define Manifest Destiny.

8. How did the image of the future change between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s?

9. Describe the first social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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