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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, The First Turning, American High (1946-1964).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are examples of social indicators?
(a) Death rate.
(b) Transportation means.
(c) Clothing styles.
(d) Wage growth and political activism.

2. What happens in 'cyclical time' according to the authors?
(a) History starts and stops frequently.
(b) History hurts the minority.
(c) History cannot complete its beginnings.
(d) History repeats itself with only temporary progress.

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

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

5. How do many historians record cycles?
(a) Birth records.
(b) Depressions.
(c) War.
(d) Revitalizations

Short Answer Questions

1. In determining a generation, what should one look for according to the authors?

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

3. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?

4. What were Jon Edwards and William Lloyd Garrison considered?

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

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