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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Beginning of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was not a sample member of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Irving Berlin.
(c) Helen Keller.
(d) Jane Addams.

2. What 75-year old Union commander retired after Bull Run?
(a) Alexander Stevens.
(b) Thomas Riddle.
(c) Winfield Scott.
(d) Nat Turner.

3. Who is most likely to enlist if a war arises?
(a) Youth.
(b) Elderhood.
(c) Midlifers.
(d) Rising adults.

4. To which generation did Harry Truman belong?
(a) Missionary.
(b) Silent.
(c) G.I.
(d) Lost.

5. What generation type is elder during a Crisis era?
(a) Idealist.
(b) Adaptive.
(c) Reactive.
(d) Civic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What social moment began in the late 1960s and lasted through the 1970s?

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

3. What decade did Sesame Street first affect?

4. What is the range of the cohort lengths of all seventeen completed American generations?

5. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?

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