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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 not a sample member of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Bob Hope.
(b) Walt Disney.
(c) J. Edgar Hoover.
(d) John Wayne.

2. What is it called when society focuses on reordering the outer world of institutions and public behavior?
(a) Secular crisis.
(b) Spiritual awakening.
(c) Social moment.
(d) Consciousness Revolution.

3. What is one generation of the Revolutionary cycle of American history?
(a) Compromise.
(b) Gilded.
(c) Progressive.
(d) Cavalier.

4. Which was not an Inner-Driven era?
(a) World War I, Prohibition.
(b) Religious Intolerance.
(c) Transcendental Era.
(d) French and Indian War.

5. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?
(a) 17-33.
(b) 15-30.
(c) 10-25.
(d) 19-35.

Short Answer Questions

1. From 1946 to 1963, which test score continued to decline?

2. What are children living home after college called?

3. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Great Depression-World War II crisis?

4. How many distinct types of peer personalities recur in each lifecycle?

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

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