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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do many historians record cycles?
(a) Revitalizations
(b) Depressions.
(c) War.
(d) Birth records.

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

4. What was the generational cycle of 1640?
(a) The Queen's Educated Generation.
(b) King George's Tax Generation.
(c) John Winthrop's Puritan Generation.
(d) Religious Reform Generation.

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

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

7. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?
(a) Water and its forms.
(b) Jobs and retirements.
(c) Schooling.
(d) A Christian cycle of death and rebirth.

8. What happens to individualism during the Third Turning according to the authors?
(a) It grows strong.
(b) It deteriorates.
(c) It weakens.
(d) It remains stagnant.

9. When was Generation X discovered?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1990.

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

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

12. 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.

13. What do young adults act like in the general cycle of life according to the authors?
(a) Conservative.
(b) Tired.
(c) Useless.
(d) Vital.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, Americans identify generations by determining what?

2. What do midlifers do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?

3. What do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?

4. What was the generational cycle of 1690?

5. What do the authors mean when they state all cycles are circular?

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