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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an Adaptive's preoccupation in elderhood?
(a) Family.
(b) Civilization.
(c) Survival.
(d) Community.

2. What mood was evident in America from the late 1980s through the 1990s?
(a) Outer-Driven.
(b) Awakening.
(c) Inner-Driven.
(d) Crisis.

3. What is a Idealist's style of leadership?
(a) Pragmatic, cautious.
(b) Grand, expansive.
(c) Process fixated, pluralistic.
(d) Righteous, austere.

4. Which was not a Crisis Era?
(a) Depression, WWII.
(b) Glorious Revolution.
(c) World War I, Prohibition.
(d) American Revolution.

5. Which was not an Reactive lifecycle?
(a) Lost.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Awakener.
(d) Gilded.

6. Whose Presidential bid failed in 1824?
(a) Andrew Jackson.
(b) Alexander Riddle.
(c) Winfield Scott.
(d) Thomas Hardy.

7. What generation type is midlife during a Crisis era?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Adaptive.
(d) Civic.

8. What generation type is rising adult during an Awakening era?
(a) Reactive.
(b) Adaptive.
(c) Civic.
(d) Idealist.

9. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Leonid Brezhnev.
(b) Helmut Kohl.
(c) John Lennon.
(d) Fidel Castro.

10. What were the dates of the Missionary Awakening of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) 1886-1903.
(b) 1884-1900.
(c) 1890-1905.
(d) 1885-1904.

11. What is a paradigm?
(a) A chart.
(b) A model.
(c) A dilemma.
(d) A contradiction.

12. What rises steeply during Outer-Driven eras?
(a) Birth rates.
(b) Homocides.
(c) Military enlistments.
(d) Substance abuse.

13. Who was a "son of thunder"?
(a) Peter Oliver.
(b) Samuel Dunbar.
(c) George Whitefield.
(d) James Davenport.

14. What is a Civic's preoccupation in elderhood?
(a) Survival.
(b) Family.
(c) Community.
(d) Civilization.

15. What is an Idealist's idea of God?
(a) He is persuasion.
(b) He is power.
(c) He is truth.
(d) He is love.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was not a Transcendental generation American President?

2. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?

3. Which was not an Awakening Era?

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

5. What rises steeply during Awakening eras?

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