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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who led true Protestant believers to America?
(a) Cotton Mather.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Roger Williams.
(d) John Winthrope.

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

3. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Lost generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Adolf Hitler.
(b) Charles Chaplin.
(c) Albert Schweitzer.
(d) Mao Zedong.

4. 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 vertical.
(c) On the horizontal.
(d) On the diagonal.

5. What is it called when society focuses on changing the inner world of values and private behavior?
(a) Secular crisis.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Social moment.
(d) Consciousness Revolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is true of cohort-membership?

2. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?

3. Who was not a sample member of the Lost generation of the Great Power Cycle?

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

5. How many G.I. Presidents were there?

(see the answer key)

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