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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cycles of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what have people sought to redefine in the last 150 years?
(a) The way the media reacts to generations.
(b) Saving money for generations to come.
(c) Family life and how to succeed while protecting it.
(d) The concept of the generation.

2. What was the clash of powerful personalities during the beginning of Anglo-American modernity?
(a) Europe and America.
(b) The Allies and the Axis powers.
(c) Wars of the Roses and the Protestant Reformation.
(d) The North and the South.

3. What do generations do when they pass through a crisis according to the authors?
(a) Write so history is recorded.
(b) Save money for happier times.
(c) Produce a kind of institutional memory that is reflected through the next cycle of generations.
(d) Close down as a protective mechanism.

4. What is the most recent second turning according to the authors?
(a) Loud clothing of the 1990s.
(b) Lack of parenting in the 2000s.
(c) Tax revolts of the early 1980s.
(d) Sitcoms of the 1980s.

5. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?
(a) The country is unraveling.
(b) History is being rewritten.
(c) People will not seriously read the book.
(d) Americans will not vote.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, what happens to circular cycles?

2. What happens to civic order during the Second Turning according to the authors?

3. What happens during the fourth tide?

4. What was the generational cycle of 1740?

5. How often does each saeculum in the United States last?

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