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Generations | Quiz

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1)

Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689? (from The Cycle in America)

Gray Champion.
Simon Bradstreet.
John Hawthorne.
Edmund Andros.
2)

What is an Idealist's preoccupation in elderhood? (from The Beginning of History)

Community.
Civilization.
Survival.
Family.
3)

In the 1970s, what image did movie makers emphasis? (from From Puritans to Millennials and Beyond)

Distressed childhood.
Abandonment of the elderly.
Dissolution of teens.
Corruption of government.
4)

Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis? (from The Cycle in America)

Francis Bacon.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Thomas Jefferson.
Cotton Mather.
5)

With whom do young Idealists show the strongest attachment? (from From Puritans to Millennials and Beyond)

Peers.
Siblings.
Mothers.
Fathers.
6)

Who had the scars of 499 British lashes on his back? (from The Revolutionary Cycle, 1734-1825)

Francis Marion.
Daniel Morgan.
George Prescott.
Cecil Kenyon.
7)

What is a Civic's style of leadership? (from The Beginning of History)

Pragmatic, cautious.
Process fixated, pluralistic.
Righteous, austere.
Grand, expansive.
8)

What is not a principal endowment of an Adaptive generation? (from The Beginning of History)

Pluralism.
Expertise.
Religion.
Social Justice.
9)

Who led true Protestant believers to America? (from The Colonial Cycle)

Oliver Cromwell.
Roger Williams.
Cotton Mather.
John Winthrope.
10)

What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean? (from From Puritans to Millennials and Beyond)

Abandoning children.
Nurturing children.
Hostility towards children.
Teaching young children.
11)

Who was not a sample member of the 13ers generation during the Millennial Cycle? (from The Millennial Cycle)

Michael Jordan.
Jim Abbott.
Eddie Murphy.
David Letterman.
12)

Who taught "our submission to the rules of reason is an obedience to God"? (from The Revolutionary Cycle, 1734-1825)

Cotton Mather.
John Welsey.
Jonathan Edwards.
Charles Chauncy.
13)

How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations? (from From Puritans to Millennials and Beyond)

In the same manner in which they themselves were raised.
In a manner opposite to that in which they themselves were raised.
With little or no direction, letting the children raise themselves.
According to the latest child rearing experts.
14)

What generation type is elder during a Crisis era? (from The Past as Prologue)

Idealist.
Reactive.
Civic.
Adaptive.
15)

Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis? (from The Cycle in America)

Ted Kennedy.
Andrew Carnegie.
John Marshall.
Walt Disney.
16)

Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle? (from The Great Power Cycle)

Leonid Brezhnev.
Helmut Kohl.
John Lennon.
Fidel Castro.
17)

What generation type is rising adult during an Awakening era? (from The Past as Prologue)

Idealist.
Reactive.
Adaptive.
Civic.
18)

What word was not coined during the Civil War Cycle? (from The Civil War Cycle)

Medium.
Clairvoyance.
Specter.
Seance.
19)

What is an Adaptive's idea of God? (from Completing the Millennial Cycle)

He is truth.
He is love.
He is power.
He is persuasion.
20)

What is not a principal endowment of an Idealist generation? (from The Beginning of History)

Principle.
Liberty.
Religion.
Education.
21)

When did Charles I take England's throne? (from The Colonial Cycle)

1631.
1628.
1630.
1629.
22)

Who was not a sample member of the Lost generation of the Great Power Cycle? (from The Great Power Cycle)

Orville Wright.
Earl Warren.
Babe Ruth.
Geroge Patton.
23)

Who was a prominent foreign peer of the Awakening Generation of the Revolutionary Cycle? (from The Revolutionary Cycle, 1734-1825)

Roger Sherman.
John Witherspoon.
John Wesley.
Samson Occum.
24)

What was the generation type for the Silent generation in the Great Power Cycle? (from The Great Power Cycle)

Reactive.
Civic.
Adaptive.
Idealist.
25)

How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history? (from The Cycle in America)

28.
42.
36.
52.
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