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

2. What word was not coined during the Civil War Cycle?
(a) Specter.
(b) Seance.
(c) Medium.
(d) Clairvoyance.

3. What are the birth dates for the Reformation generation?
(a) 1480-1510.
(b) 1485-1515.
(c) 1483-1509.
(d) 1482-1511.

4. Who wrote Exile's Return?
(a) Daniel Levinson.
(b) Jane Addams.
(c) Ellen Lagemann.
(d) Malcolm Cowley.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a "son of thunder"?

2. How many new churches are credited to the Great Awakening during the Revolutionary Cycle?

3. How might a cataclysm affect a 70-year-old?

4. At what age does the book Passages suggest a midlife crisis?

5. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?

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