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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Seasons of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?
(a) A Christian cycle of death and rebirth.
(b) Water and its forms.
(c) Schooling.
(d) Jobs and retirements.

2. When does a generation come to be recognized?
(a) When it reproduces.
(b) When it finishes school.
(c) When it has power.
(d) When it reaches young adulthood.

3. What do children do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?
(a) Grow.
(b) Complain.
(c) Eat.
(d) Steal.

4. Through what do the cycles require rebirth?
(a) Connections.
(b) Work.
(c) Money.
(d) Recreation.

5. How do generations often define themselves according to the authors?
(a) With their parents' generation.
(b) By the former generation.
(c) Against the shadow of the generation two steps prior to them.
(d) By whatever the media says about them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?

2. What do generations do when they pass through a crisis according to the authors?

3. From their order of experiences, what do the authors say generations form?

4. When was Generation X discovered?

5. What comprises the First Turning according to the authors?

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