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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Silent Generation born?
(a) 50s and 60s.
(b) 40s adn 50s.
(c) The 30s and 40s.
(d) Present day.

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

3. What is another name for a 'gray champion'?
(a) A saluki.
(b) An elder prophet.
(c) A formerly black champion.
(d) A deceased leader.

4. What were Jon Edwards and William Lloyd Garrison considered?
(a) Nomads.
(b) Prophets.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Artists.

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

6. What will happen with a revolutionary change?
(a) Old money will disappear.
(b) Conflicts resolve themselves.
(c) A new gray champion.
(d) New educations will form.

7. How are revitalizations divided?
(a) Through monetary means.
(b) Into saeculums.
(c) By gender roles.
(d) Within communities.

8. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?
(a) As necessary evils that people will never understand.
(b) As something Americans endure better than others.
(c) The start and end of a crisis.
(d) The death of one saeculum and the birth of the next.

9. What did Medieval Christianity replace?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Etruscans.
(c) The Victorians.
(d) The Roman Empire.

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

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

12. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?
(a) Four weather elements.
(b) Three stages of life.
(c) Four seasons.
(d) Each century.

13. When does a generation come to be recognized?
(a) When it has power.
(b) When it reaches young adulthood.
(c) When it finishes school.
(d) When it reproduces.

14. What do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?
(a) How to keep families together.
(b) What is in store for them.
(c) What to save money for.
(d) How to be kind.

15. What was the First Turning's time period like?
(a) American dominance.
(b) England's hold over America.
(c) American poverty and fear.
(d) American doubt and retreat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens during a second turning?

3. What did the Etruscans know?

4. What happens to individualism during the Third Turning according to the authors?

5. What has the Third Turning brought to living standards?

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