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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Revolutionary Cycle, 1734-1825.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was the Apollo moon landing?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1967.

2. What were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?
(a) 1620-1641.
(b) 1619-1642.
(c) 1621-1640.
(d) 1618-1639.

3. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?
(a) Abraham Lincoln.
(b) Newt Gingrich.
(c) Walter Mondale.
(d) Theodore Roosevelt.

4. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?
(a) Douglas MacArthur.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Anthony Lewis.

5. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Ellen Lagemann.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Jane Addams.
(d) Malcolm Cowley.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a "son of thunder"?

2. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?

3. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?

4. Who wrote The Seasons of a Man's Life?

5. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?

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