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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 was a "son of thunder"?
(a) Samuel Dunbar.
(b) George Whitefield.
(c) Peter Oliver.
(d) James Davenport.

2. What was one of the social moments of the Colonial Cycle?
(a) The Enlightenment Generation.
(b) The Enlightenment Revolution.
(c) The Glorious Revolution.
(d) The Glorious Generation.

3. Which was not an Outer-Driven Era?
(a) Age of Enlightenment.
(b) Superpower America.
(c) Transcendental Era.
(d) Era of Good Feeling.

4. What were the dates for the Puritan Awakening?
(a) 1620-1641.
(b) 1619-1642.
(c) 1618-1639.
(d) 1621-1640.

5. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) John Lennon.
(c) Helmut Kohl.
(d) Leonid Brezhnev.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was not a sample member of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?

2. How might a cataclysm affect a 10-year-old?

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

4. What person influenced 1960 childhood?

5. Who said a generation "is born, lives, and dies"?

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