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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?
2. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?
3. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?
4. What lasts about a decade where people perceive current events as changing society?
5. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?
Short Essay Questions
1. As America entered an Inner-Driven era in 1905, how did attitudes towards Lost city kids change?
2. Define the fallacy of cohort-centrism.
3. What common milestones of life are explained in the book Passages?
4. What other alternating patterns in American history move synchronously between the push and pull of different generations?
5. How would the four different generational groups act if a war arose?
6. When this book was written, what were the four great periods of crisis in American history?
7. What was the attitude towards children from the mid-1960s through the early 1980s?
8. Describe Adaptives during an outer-driven era.
9. What are the timespans separating the four pivotal events of American history?
10. Define cohort.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain and describe the four constellational eras and their moods. Specifically apply those four constellational eras to events in American history.
Essay Topic 2
How was the Atomic Age ushered into the world? What were the events? Who were the major people involved? What was the public sentiment?
Essay Topic 3
With their passing, the Transcendentals left America an enduring projection of their peer personality. How specifically did Transcendentals affect American thought and behavior for years to come.
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