View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Past as Prologue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the central role of elderhood?
(a) Dependence.
(b) Activity.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Stewardship.

2. Who said that America's foreign policy since 1776 has alternated between extroversion and introversion?
(a) Milton.
(b) Klingberg.
(c) Schlesinger.
(d) Overheiser.

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

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

5. What are the dates for the Reformation Awakening?
(a) 1517-1539.
(b) 1515-1540.
(c) 1518-1541.
(d) 1516-1538.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who taught "our submission to the rules of reason is an obedience to God"?

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

4. What element distinguishes a generation as a cohesive cohort-group with its own unique biography?

5. What is the central role of rising adulthood?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 147 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample