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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Gray Champions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do generations behave with the concept of 'acting according to your season' according to the authors?
(a) Generations gain notoriety for their behavior.
(b) Generations have behaviors appropriate to their place in history.
(c) Generations act nothing alike-everyone is an individual.
(d) Generations create rebellion against expectations.

2. How frequently do these cycles of history repeat themselves?
(a) Throughout a decade.
(b) Over similar lengths of time.
(c) Over dissimilar lengths of time.
(d) Throughout a century.

3. What will happen with a revolutionary change?
(a) New educations will form.
(b) A new gray champion.
(c) Old money will disappear.
(d) Conflicts resolve themselves.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the Third Turning, what happens to institutions according to the authors?

2. What is a 'saeculum' according to the authors?

3. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?

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

5. According to the authors, Americans identify generations by determining what?

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