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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were John Adams and Dwight Eisenhower considered?
(a) Artists.
(b) Elder prophets.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Heroes.

2. Eventually, what happens to circular cycles?
(a) They have a moment of discontinuity.
(b) They become stronger.
(c) They bore people.
(d) They disappear.

3. How frequently do these cycles of history repeat themselves?
(a) Over dissimilar lengths of time.
(b) Throughout a century.
(c) Throughout a decade.
(d) Over similar lengths of time.

4. Through what do the cycles require rebirth?
(a) Money.
(b) Connections.
(c) Work.
(d) Recreation.

5. During the First Turning, what was the American family like?
(a) Broken and spiritless.
(b) Tired and cruel.
(c) Beyond question and suburban.
(d) Simple and plain.

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

7. What do all major cultures acknowledge according to the authors?
(a) Religious historical cycles.
(b) Transportation necessities.
(c) Educational needs.
(d) Artistic influences.

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

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

10. 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.

11. Where do seasons occur according to the authors?
(a) At historical museums.
(b) Across and within generations.
(c) Outdoors, four times a year.
(d) Within the education system.

12. What should Americans expect concerning living standards in the future according to the authors?
(a) Living standards will improve quickly.
(b) Living standards will decline.
(c) Living standards will positively change slowly.
(d) Living standards will be stagnant.

13. What happens in 'chaotic time' according to the authors?
(a) History has no path.
(b) History brings happiness.
(c) History repeats itself.
(d) History quickly finishes.

14. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?
(a) Marriage and divorce.
(b) Wealth and poverty.
(c) War and peace.
(d) Happiness and despair.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'prophets'?

2. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?

3. In determining a generation, what should one look for according to the authors?

4. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?

5. How often do new generations develop?

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