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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 taught "our submission to the rules of reason is an obedience to God"?
(a) Cotton Mather.
(b) John Welsey.
(c) Jonathan Edwards.
(d) Charles Chauncy.

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

3. Where does the cohort group fall in a typical table with age on the vertical axis and calendar year on the horizontal axis?
(a) On the horizontal.
(b) On the vertical.
(c) As an ellipse.
(d) On the diagonal.

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

5. Who wrote Passages?
(a) Gail Sheehy.
(b) Erik Erikson.
(c) Daniel Levinson.
(d) Cheryl Merser.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an Adaptive's preoccupation in elderhood?

2. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

3. What is a cohort-group whose length approximates the span of a phase of life and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality?

4. At the First Continental Congress, who proclaimed, "It is evil against right"?

5. Which person believed in psychic phenomena?

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