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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cycle in America.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What answer is not a generational type?
(a) Millennialist.
(b) Reactive.
(c) Idealist.
(d) Adpative.

2. When this book was written, which Progressive Generation had disappeared entirely?
(a) Woodrow Wilson's.
(b) F. Scoot Fitzgerald's.
(c) Dwight Eisenhower's.
(d) Franklin d. Roosevelt's.

3. Who complained that the Apollo mission gave him a "guilty conscience"?
(a) John Kennedy.
(b) Anthony Lewis.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Ted Kennedy.

4. To propel the generational cycle in the authors' proposed manner, how must a secular crisis end?
(a) With new ideals.
(b) With reforms.
(c) With triumph.
(d) With war.

5. Which President was born 46 years from Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) Gerald Ford.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was a rising-adult leader during the Glorious Revolution crisis?

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

4. Who said, "You don't need to be shot down from the sky to know the world is a dangerous place"?

5. Who are coming of age in an awakening era?

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