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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Second Turning, Consciousness Revolution (1964-1984).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the generational cycle of 1600?
(a) Religious and Arts Appreciation Generation.
(b) Wheatley's Philosophical Generation.
(c) Roman Countrymen Generation.
(d) Shakespeare's Elizabethan Generation.

2. In America's saeculum in the First Turning, what is the range of the period?
(a) The Great Depression and the Vietnam conflict ending.
(b) The end of the Civil War and the start of World War II.
(c) World War I and World War II.
(d) The end of World War II and the Kennedy Assassination.

3. What was the First Turning's time period like?
(a) American dominance.
(b) American doubt and retreat.
(c) England's hold over America.
(d) American poverty and fear.

4. What happened economically during the Second Turning?
(a) Huge decline.
(b) Enormous growth.
(c) Small gains.
(d) Stagnant movement.

5. What does Mt. Rushmore represent according to the authors?
(a) History.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Male dominance.
(d) The four archetypes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does each generation experience each period of the cycle?

2. What happens during a third turning?

3. How does the archetypal pattern begin?

4. What influences Americans' view of the First Turning according to the authors?

5. During the First Turning, why did Americans become conformists?

(see the answer key)

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