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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Silent Generation wear?
(a) Expensive clothing.
(b) Jeans.
(c) Loud colors and makeup.
(d) Gray flannel suit.

2. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?
(a) As necessary evils that people will never understand.
(b) As something Americans endure better than others.
(c) The start and end of a crisis.
(d) The death of one saeculum and the birth of the next.

3. What should Americans expect concerning living standards in the future according to the authors?
(a) Living standards will decline.
(b) Living standards will positively change slowly.
(c) Living standards will be stagnant.
(d) Living standards will improve quickly.

4. What were Jefferson and Reagan considered?
(a) Elder prophets.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Artists.
(d) Nomads.

5. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'prophets'?
(a) Young adults.
(b) Midlife.
(c) Birth.
(d) Elder.

6. What is reflected in future generations according to the authors?
(a) Death.
(b) The repetition of a four part cycle.
(c) Religious beliefs.
(d) The love for children.

7. What happens to civic order during the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) People renew their beliefs in it.
(b) It comes under attack from a new system of values.
(c) People question it but remain silent.
(d) It is strengthened.

8. What were Jon Edwards and William Lloyd Garrison considered?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Prophets.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Artists.

9. What was the generational cycle of 1690?
(a) King Carter's Glorious Generation.
(b) John Smith's Exploratory Generation.
(c) The Slavery Generation.
(d) Queen Elizabeth's Religious Generation.

10. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?
(a) Bring the Fourth Turning to a climax.
(b) Create conflict in the Fourth Turning.
(c) Close the Fourth Turning.
(d) Grow relationships during the Fourth Turning.

11. What was the generational cycle of 1640?
(a) King George's Tax Generation.
(b) Religious Reform Generation.
(c) John Winthrop's Puritan Generation.
(d) The Queen's Educated Generation.

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

13. What happens in 'linear time' according to the authors?
(a) It brings depression and we expect the worst.
(b) It brings hope and we never expect catastrophe.
(c) It brings inflation.
(d) It creates chaos.

14. What comprises the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) The people become educated.
(b) The people wreck communities.
(c) The people destroy their health.
(d) The people strengthen civic institutions.

15. What happened to the Etruscans?
(a) The Victorians controlled them.
(b) They refused to pay their bills.
(c) They never realized history was cyclical.
(d) The Roman Empire replaced them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the authors present American history?

2. Where do seasons occur according to the authors?

3. What were John Adams and Dwight Eisenhower considered?

4. What comprises the Third Turning according to the authors?

5. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?

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