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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?
(a) The healthy part of life.
(b) The proper belief in education.
(c) The proper philosophy of time.
(d) The correct use of money.

2. In determining a generation, what should one look for according to the authors?
(a) Athletic patterns.
(b) New transportation and styles.
(c) Birth rates.
(d) Common beliefs and behaviors.

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

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

5. What does a gray champion tell about a time period?
(a) The period was one of great peril.
(b) The period had many accomplishments.
(c) The period was one of wealth.
(d) The period gave hope to many.

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

7. During the Third Turning, what happens to institutions according to the authors?
(a) They destroy themselves.
(b) They gain momentum.
(c) The strengthen.
(d) They weaken.

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

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

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

11. What was the generational cycle of 1790?
(a) John Wesley's Methodist Generation.
(b) Thomas Jefferson's Republican Generation.
(c) The Pre-Civil War Generation.
(d) George Whitefield's Writing Generation.

12. Under what conditions did the Baby Boomers grow up according to the authors?
(a) They were spoiled and lacked discipline.
(b) They wre treated harshly.
(c) They sufferred as child laborers.
(d) They understood difficult financial times.

13. What comprises the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) An era of education.
(b) A time period of drug use.
(c) An era of spiritual rebirth.
(d) A time period of chaos.

14. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?
(a) A change in transportation.
(b) A changing of clothing styles.
(c) An idea of a male God.
(d) They follow several rules.

15. What were Jackson, Woodrow Wilson and Colin Powell considered?
(a) Artists.
(b) Nomads.
(c) Elder prophets.
(d) Heroes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How frequently do these cycles of history repeat themselves?

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

3. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'nomads'?

4. What hit the Lost Generation hard?

5. What fascinated the Romans according to the authors?

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