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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to old values during the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) People improve them.
(b) People abandon them.
(c) People change them.
(d) People embrace them.

3. What was the generational cycle of 1600?
(a) Wheatley's Philosophical Generation.
(b) Shakespeare's Elizabethan Generation.
(c) Roman Countrymen Generation.
(d) Religious and Arts Appreciation Generation.

4. What was the clash of powerful personalities during the beginning of Anglo-American modernity?
(a) The North and the South.
(b) Wars of the Roses and the Protestant Reformation.
(c) Europe and America.
(d) The Allies and the Axis powers.

5. How do Americans view the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) As depressing.
(b) As a 'high.'
(c) As promising.
(d) As a 'low.'

6. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?
(a) To spread wealth in the classes.
(b) To slow social change.
(c) To gain momentum in politics.
(d) To hurt other archetypes.

7. What happens to the New Prophets during the First Turning?
(a) New Prophets head to the job market.
(b) New Prophets gain money.
(c) New Prophets head to college.
(d) New Prophets are born.

8. What hit the Lost Generation hard?
(a) Two world wars and the Great Depression.
(b) Aging too quickly.
(c) New expectations.
(d) A lack of education.

9. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'prophets'?
(a) Young adults.
(b) Elder.
(c) Birth.
(d) Midlife.

10. What do children do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?
(a) Complain.
(b) Steal.
(c) Grow.
(d) Eat.

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

12. Why do the authors look toward prophecy?
(a) This is a transition in their material.
(b) They have predicted all they can.
(c) Their goals for the audience shift.
(d) This is a different topic.

13. During the First Turning, why did Americans become conformists?
(a) Their confidence.
(b) Their new technology.
(c) Their lack of money.
(d) Their overly-educated youth.

14. How does the archetypal pattern begin?
(a) Old Prophets write history.
(b) Old Prophets lose their jobs to the youth.
(c) Old Prophets die.
(d) Future old Prophets are born.

15. What happens during the fourth tide?
(a) Elder prophets die.
(b) Artists become elders.
(c) Nomads are born.
(d) The heroes are young adults.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Silent Generation born?

2. What was the First Turning's time period like?

3. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?

4. What comprises the Fourth Turning according to the authors?

5. How did the Lost Generation treat social life?

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