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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 were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?

2. When were boomers born?

3. Children are unfortunate to be born in which era?

4. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?

5. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?

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. Describe Idealists in an awakening era.

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

5. How is the authors' approach to defining American generations different from most other scholars?

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

7. Define cohort.

8. What kind of childhood did Reactive generations have?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain with a specific example how generational awareness applies not only to where a cohort-group finds itself today, but also to where it is expected to go tomorrow.

Essay Topic 2

Explain and describe the four constellational eras and their moods. Specifically apply those four constellational eras to events in American history.

Essay Topic 3

The text was published in 1991. What general predictions did the authors make for the remainder of the 90s? Which three generational cultures will emerge? What will their roles be?

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