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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 alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Social Moments.
(b) Generational phases.
(c) Corresponding idealism.
(d) Interactive critcal events.

2. What is affected by how students are taught?
(a) What they believe.
(b) What they do.
(c) Their politics.
(d) How they teach.

3. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?
(a) Heavily Republican.
(b) Heavily Democrat.
(c) Split between Republican and Democrat.
(d) Mostly Independent.

4. What year were the first G.I. babies born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1910.

5. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?
(a) According to the latest child rearing experts.
(b) With little or no direction, letting the children raise themselves.
(c) In a manner opposite to that in which they themselves were raised.
(d) In the same manner in which they themselves were raised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did George Bush do during WWII?

2. What is true of cohort-membership?

3. Who are coming of age in an inner-driven era?

4. Who was the monarch of England when the Spanish Armada was sunk?

5. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts significant?

3. What are the four phases of one generation?

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

5. To whom did Americans turn during all four of its secular crises?

6. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

7. Define the word generation as the authors see it.

8. Define cohort.

9. What is a generational constellation?

10. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?

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