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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Great Power Cycle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which generation was typically estranged from their fathers?
(a) Gildeds.
(b) Reactionaries.
(c) Transcendentals.
(d) Progressives.

2. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?
(a) He'd find it calming.
(b) He'd find it inspiring.
(c) He'd find it terrifying.
(d) He'd find it incomprehensible.

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 wrote Passages?
(a) Erik Erikson.
(b) Daniel Levinson.
(c) Gail Sheehy.
(d) Cheryl Merser.

5. What was Harriet Tubman's nickname?
(a) Elijah.
(b) Jonah.
(c) Moses.
(d) John the Baptist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?

2. What is the central role of midlife?

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

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

5. Which generation type was born from 1860-1882?

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