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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. What is affected by how students are taught?
(a) How they teach.
(b) What they believe.
(c) What they do.
(d) Their politics.

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

3. When this book was written, what age comprised America's most Republican leaning bracket?
(a) 20-24.
(b) 25-29.
(c) 30-34.
(d) 35-39.

4. What are the ages for midlife?
(a) 35-55.
(b) 40-60.
(c) 44-65.
(d) 50-70.

5. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) George Orwell.
(b) Charles de Gaulle.
(c) Ferdinand Marco.
(d) Willy Brandt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was not a Crisis Era?

2. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?

3. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

4. Who said "This is the greatest week in the history of mankind since the Creation"?

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

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