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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. How do the authors choose the length of a generation?
(a) By the length of a phase of life.
(b) By the average age at death.
(c) By the average age of parenthood.
(d) By the average age of marriage.

2. What was the American population during the colonial cycle of history?
(a) 800,000.
(b) 700,000.
(c) 900,000.
(d) 600,000.

3. When did New Age churches begin to rise?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1980s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1990s.

4. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the Missionary generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Mahatma Ghandi.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Winston Churchill.
(d) Pablo Picasso.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Around 1900, what were wagons and streetcars responsible for?

2. Which was not an American history cycle?

3. Who sought to trace universal lifecycle trends in aptitude scores?

4. Who wrote Passages?

5. How many years were there from the End of Crisis to the End of Awakening in the Civil War cycle of American history?

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