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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Past as Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the dominant generations during a social moment?
(a) Midlife and rising adulthood.
(b) Midlife and elderhood.
(c) Rising adulthood and elderhood.
(d) Youth and rising adult.

2. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?
(a) Francis Bacon.
(b) Thomas Jefferson.
(c) Cotton Mather.
(d) Sir Walter Raleigh.

3. Who was a prominent foreign peer of the Awakening Generation of the Revolutionary Cycle?
(a) Samson Occum.
(b) John Wesley.
(c) John Witherspoon.
(d) Roger Sherman.

4. What 75-year old Union commander retired after Bull Run?
(a) Thomas Riddle.
(b) Alexander Stevens.
(c) Winfield Scott.
(d) Nat Turner.

5. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?
(a) By the average age of parenthood.
(b) By the length of a phase of life.
(c) By the average age at death.
(d) By the average age of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the central role of youth?

2. During the Millennial cycle, which generation made sweeping advances against childhood diseases?

3. Who is a sample member of the Great Power cycle of American history?

4. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?

5. What is affected by how students are taught?

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