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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?
(a) To slow social change.
(b) To hurt other archetypes.
(c) To gain momentum in politics.
(d) To spread wealth in the classes.

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

7. What happened to the Etruscans?
(a) They refused to pay their bills.
(b) The Roman Empire replaced them.
(c) They never realized history was cyclical.
(d) The Victorians controlled them.

8. What has the Third Turning brought to living standards?
(a) Tragedy.
(b) Conflict.
(c) Improvements.
(d) Danger.

9. According to the authors, what have people sought to redefine in the last 150 years?
(a) Family life and how to succeed while protecting it.
(b) Saving money for generations to come.
(c) The concept of the generation.
(d) The way the media reacts to generations.

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

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

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

13. How do the authors present American history?
(a) They turn history into prophesy.
(b) They show different US presidents' points of view.
(c) They present it from present day backward.
(d) They divide chapters by generations.

14. 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) Save money for happier times.
(c) Write so history is recorded.
(d) Close down as a protective mechanism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Lost Generation treat social life?

2. Who controlled much of the world during the First Turning?

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

4. What is another name for a 'gray champion'?

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

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