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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. What is true of cohort-membership?
(a) It chooses you.
(b) It is age related.
(c) It is involuntary.
(d) It is voluntary.

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

3. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?
(a) Hawkins.
(b) Edwards.
(c) Philips.
(d) Drake.

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

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) On the vertical.
(b) On the horizontal.
(c) As an ellipse.
(d) On the diagonal.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which generation did Harry Truman belong?

2. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?

3. Who wrote Grown-ups?

4. Into what era did America move in the 1750s?

5. What is the central role of youth?

(see the answer key)

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