View a FREE sample

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 Civic's idea of God?

2. Who said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"?

3. What is a paradigm?

4. Which future President was 4 years old during the Battle of Bull Run?

5. What generation type is midlife during a Crisis era?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a generation's "morphology"?

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

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

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

5. Describe the second social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

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

7. What are the time periods for the authors' predicted two future social moments?

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

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

10. What was the "settlement movement"?

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

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 3

Beginning with the Armada Crisis, summarize the five secular events which marked "the swift and sweeping change in the secular world." How did each begin? How did each end? What men were rising-adult leaders during each?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 782 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample