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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 decade did Sesame Street first affect?
(a) The 50s.
(b) The 70s.
(c) The 60s.
(d) The 80s.

2. Who wrote the poem "Philosophic Solitude"?
(a) Samuel Fothergill.
(b) William Livingston.
(c) Ebenezer Pemberton.
(d) Samuel Finley.

3. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) John Kennedy.
(c) Anthony Lewis.
(d) Ted Kennedy.

4. Who wrote Grown-ups?
(a) Gail Sheehy.
(b) Cheryl Merser.
(c) Erik Erikson.
(d) Daniel Levinson.

5. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?
(a) The death of lost city kids.
(b) The rise in crime.
(c) The speed of city living.
(d) The increase in distribution of goods.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What would an examination of cohort groups not be likely to predict?

3. What year was George Washington sworn in as President?

4. What 75-year old Union commander retired after Bull Run?

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

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