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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Eternal Return.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Awakenings do for people according to the authors?
(a) Create hostility.
(b) Grow accountability and spirituality.
(c) Bond old traditional ideas to new ones.
(d) Change cultures and renew the spirit.

2. In determining a generation, what should one look for according to the authors?
(a) Common beliefs and behaviors.
(b) New transportation and styles.
(c) Athletic patterns.
(d) Birth rates.

3. What did the Etruscans know?
(a) That history was cyclical.
(b) That food was sustainable.
(c) That money did not matter.
(d) That other cultures were stronger than theirs.

4. What does Mt. Rushmore represent according to the authors?
(a) Wealth.
(b) The four archetypes.
(c) Male dominance.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?

2. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?

3. When does a generation come to be recognized?

4. According to the authors, what will Boomers' old age be full of?

5. What describes the Baby Boomers' educations according to the authors?

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