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

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

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

5. When is the cycle of archetypes formed according to the authors?
(a) During great harmony.
(b) Between opposing generations in the circle.
(c) During types of wealth.
(d) In years of war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are examples of social indicators?

2. When did the American saecular cycle begin?

3. What happens to old values during the First Turning according to the authors?

4. How do the authors present American history?

5. What did the Etruscans know?

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