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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?
(a) The Glorious Revolution.
(b) The Glorious Generation.
(c) The Enlightenment Revolution.
(d) The Enlightenment Generation.
2. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1792-1821.
(b) 1843-1859.
(c) 1822-1842.
(d) 1860-1882.
3. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?
(a) Elderhood.
(b) Rising adults.
(c) Youth.
(d) Midlifers.
4. How many G.I. Presidents were there?
(a) 6.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.
5. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Interactive critcal events.
(b) Corresponding idealism.
(c) Generational phases.
(d) Social Moments.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
2. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?
3. What did revolution, anarchy, war, and pestilence indicate to colonial New Englanders?
4. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?
5. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the authors' approach to defining American generations different from most other scholars?
2. What is a generational constellation?
3. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.
4. What were the two social moments of the Reformation Cycle?
5. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?
6. What are the central roles for the four phases of a generation?
7. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?
8. What was the attitude towards children from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s?
9. Who composed the European cohort-group of 1584-1614?
10. What is peer personality?
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