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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. Who wrote the Book of Martyrs?
(a) John Foxe.
(b) Thomas Hanover.
(c) Philip Stevenson.
(d) James Conroy.

2. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
(a) Dr. Suess.
(b) Dr. Spock.
(c) President Eisenhower.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

3. What were the ages of the G.I. Generation on Pearl Harbor Sunday?
(a) birth-40.
(b) 35-65.
(c) 21-45.
(d) 17-34.

4. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?
(a) 1517-1539.
(b) 1515-1540.
(c) 1518-1541.
(d) 1516-1538.

5. In the 1970s, what image did movie makers emphasis?
(a) Corruption of government.
(b) Abandonment of the elderly.
(c) Dissolution of teens.
(d) Distressed childhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?

2. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

3. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

4. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?

5. Which President regretted the fading memory of World War II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Klingberg's periods of activity cycle differ from the authors' of the text?

2. What is peer personality?

3. What are the four generational types and their relationship to each other?

4. As America entered an Inner-Driven era in 1905, how did attitudes towards Lost city kids change?

5. What were the two social moments of the Reformation Cycle?

6. What did Cheryl Merser realize after reading the book Passages?

7. Define life-course fallacy.

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 kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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