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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 do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?
(a) How to keep families together.
(b) What is in store for them.
(c) How to be kind.
(d) What to save money for.

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

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

4. What do the authors mean when they state all cycles are circular?
(a) They contain even numbers of years.
(b) They eventually reach all stages.
(c) They are perfectly a century.
(d) They have perfect and unbreakable repetition.

5. When did the American saecular cycle begin?
(a) When King George III taxed America.
(b) At the start of World War I.
(c) In the beginning of Ango-American modernity.
(d) During the Civil War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?

2. What happens during a first turning?

3. What are examples of social indicators?

4. According to the authors, what have people sought to redefine in the last 150 years?

5. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?

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