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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comprises the Fourth Turning according to the authors?
(a) Help and compassion.
(b) The past turning.
(c) A saecular revolution.
(d) Utopia.

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

3. How do generations behave with the concept of 'acting according to your season' according to the authors?
(a) Generations have behaviors appropriate to their place in history.
(b) Generations create rebellion against expectations.
(c) Generations gain notoriety for their behavior.
(d) Generations act nothing alike-everyone is an individual.

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

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

6. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?
(a) Grow relationships during the Fourth Turning.
(b) Bring the Fourth Turning to a climax.
(c) Create conflict in the Fourth Turning.
(d) Close the Fourth Turning.

7. What happens during a first turning?
(a) Heroes are young adults.
(b) Nomads are born.
(c) Elder prophets die.
(d) Artists become elders.

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

9. Who controlled much of the world during the First Turning?
(a) The Lost Generation.
(b) Generation X.
(c) The GI Generation.
(d) The Silent Generation.

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

11. What is a 'saeculum' according to the authors?
(a) A history that people ignore.
(b) A utopia.
(c) The most recent cycle.
(d) The despair in communities.

12. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?
(a) The country is unraveling.
(b) People will not seriously read the book.
(c) History is being rewritten.
(d) Americans will not vote.

13. What happens in 'linear time' according to the authors?
(a) It brings hope and we never expect catastrophe.
(b) It creates chaos.
(c) It brings inflation.
(d) It brings depression and we expect the worst.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the clash of powerful personalities during the beginning of Anglo-American modernity?

2. Eventually, what happens to circular cycles?

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

4. What was the generational cycle of 1690?

5. What happens in 'cyclical time' according to the authors?

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