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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cycle in America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.
(b) Woodrow Wilson's.
(c) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.
(d) Dwight Eisenhower's.

2. How many G.I. Presidents were there?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

3. What alternates between secular crises and spiritual awakenings?
(a) Corresponding idealism.
(b) Social Moments.
(c) Generational phases.
(d) Interactive critcal events.

4. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) As an ellipse.
(b) On the diagonal.
(c) On the vertical.
(d) On the horizontal.

5. Who was King James's hand picked New England governor in 1689?
(a) Edmund Andros.
(b) Gray Champion.
(c) Simon Bradstreet.
(d) John Hawthorne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What action helped mold the Puritan generation's distinct personality?

2. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

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

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

5. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

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