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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 sample member of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?

2. What year was George Washington sworn in as President?

3. What is an Civic's idea of God?

4. Who was not a sample member of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is quantitative insight?

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

8. What were Jim Crow laws?

9. During the Great Power Cycle, what American holiday tradition was initiated?

10. What is the common obligation of each successive generation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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