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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. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?
(a) He'd find it terrifying.
(b) He'd find it calming.
(c) He'd find it incomprehensible.
(d) He'd find it inspiring.

2. Generally, how did Americans aged 65-80 vote in the early 1960s?
(a) Heavily Republican.
(b) Mostly Independent.
(c) Split between Republican and Democrat.
(d) Heavily Democrat.

3. How many years were there from the Awakening to the End of Crisis in the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) 36.
(b) 28.
(c) 52.
(d) 42.

4. Who taught "our submission to the rules of reason is an obedience to God"?
(a) John Welsey.
(b) Cotton Mather.
(c) Jonathan Edwards.
(d) Charles Chauncy.

5. According to Figure 2-2, how were midlife people viewed in 1964?
(a) Reclusive.
(b) Pragmatic.
(c) Conformist.
(d) Powerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?

2. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?

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

4. For which seventeen year period did the SAT scores decline?

5. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?

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