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

2. What is not a principal endowment of an Idealist generation?
(a) Education.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Principle.
(d) Religion.

3. Who was not a sample member of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Barbra Streisand.
(b) Gore Vidal.
(c) Ted Koppel.
(d) Jimmy Stewart.

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

5. How many Boomer men saw combat in Vietnam?
(a) 1 in 21.
(b) 1 in 16.
(c) 1 in 6.
(d) 1 in 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many new churches are credited to the Great Awakening during the Revolutionary Cycle?

2. What word was not coined during the Civil War Cycle?

3. Who said "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"?

4. What was the generation type for the 13ers generation in the Millennial Cycle?

5. What generation type is elder during a Crisis era?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the "settlement movement"?

3. How did the roles of Awakener women change during the Revolutionary Cycle?

4. Describe the first social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

5. What was the attitude towards public schools in the Millennial Cycle?

6. Who was Charles Finney?

7. What was the Boom generation's only common consensus about the Vietnam conflict?

8. Define Manifest Destiny.

9. What were Jim Crow laws?

10. Describe the second social moment of the Revolutionary Cycle.

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