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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. What is not a principal endowment of a Civic generation?
(a) Pragmatism.
(b) Affluence.
(c) Community.
(d) Technology.

2. What were the birth years of the Idealist generation during the American Civil War cycle?
(a) 1843-1859.
(b) 1792-1821.
(c) 1822-1842.
(d) 1860-1882.

3. What is an Adaptive's idea of God?
(a) He is power.
(b) He is persuasion.
(c) He is truth.
(d) He is love.

4. Which was not an Civic lifecycle?
(a) G.I.
(b) Republican.
(c) Gilded.
(d) Glorious.

5. To which generation did Stonewall Jackson belong?
(a) Reactionary.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Gilded.
(d) Transcendental.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the German word kinderfeindlichkeit mean?

2. What Englishman made a three year trip around the world?

3. The authors suggest looking at the American life cycle from what perspective?

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

5. What generation type is rising adult during an Awakening era?

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