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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. When was Generation X discovered?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1992.

2. What fascinated the Romans according to the authors?
(a) Battle scenes and rescues.
(b) The Etrucan idea of a periodic cycle.
(c) Their future earnings.
(d) Hospitals and medical personnel.

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

4. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?
(a) The healthy part of life.
(b) The proper belief in education.
(c) The correct use of money.
(d) The proper philosophy of time.

5. In America's saeculum in the First Turning, what is the range of the period?
(a) The end of World War II and the Kennedy Assassination.
(b) World War I and World War II.
(c) The Great Depression and the Vietnam conflict ending.
(d) The end of the Civil War and the start of World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What represents the Baby Boomers according to the authors?

2. What was the generational cycle of 1690?

3. What year does the book's introduction address?

4. Eventually, what happens to circular cycles?

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

(see the answer key)

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