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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. What person influenced 1960 childhood?
(a) President Eisenhower.
(b) Dr. Suess.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Dr. Spock.

2. Who was not a prominent foreign peer of the G.I. generation of the Great Power Cycle?
(a) Ferdinand Marco.
(b) Charles de Gaulle.
(c) Willy Brandt.
(d) George Orwell.

3. What is a paradigm?
(a) A chart.
(b) A dilemma.
(c) A contradiction.
(d) A model.

4. How do midlife generations tend to raise current generations?
(a) In a manner opposite to that in which they themselves were raised.
(b) In the same manner in which they themselves were raised.
(c) According to the latest child rearing experts.
(d) With little or no direction, letting the children raise themselves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the dates of the Missionary Awakening of the Great Power Cycle?

2. Who was not a sample member of the Silent generation of the Great Power Cycle?

3. What is a set of collective behavioral traits expressed throughout a generation's lifecycle?

4. What is the central role of rising adulthood?

5. Which generation type was born from 1860-1882?

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