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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 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.

2. What is reflected in future generations according to the authors?
(a) The love for children.
(b) Religious beliefs.
(c) The repetition of a four part cycle.
(d) Death.

3. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'children'?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Prophets.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Artists.

4. What was the generational cycle of 1790?
(a) The Pre-Civil War Generation.
(b) John Wesley's Methodist Generation.
(c) George Whitefield's Writing Generation.
(d) Thomas Jefferson's Republican Generation.

5. What does a gray champion tell about a time period?
(a) The period was one of wealth.
(b) The period was one of great peril.
(c) The period had many accomplishments.
(d) The period gave hope to many.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in 'linear time' according to the authors?

2. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?

3. How do generations behave with the concept of 'acting according to your season' according to the authors?

4. In America's saeculum in the First Turning, what is the range of the period?

5. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?

(see the answer key)

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