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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen with a revolutionary change?
(a) Old money will disappear.
(b) New educations will form.
(c) Conflicts resolve themselves.
(d) A new gray champion.

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

3. From their order of experiences, what do the authors say generations form?
(a) Families that grow together.
(b) Rebellion that changes society.
(c) Musical era in their hearts.
(d) Constellations of a sort.

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

5. What hit the Lost Generation hard?
(a) Aging too quickly.
(b) New expectations.
(c) Two world wars and the Great Depression.
(d) A lack of education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?

2. What happens during a second turning?

3. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?

4. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?

5. How did the Lost Generation treat social life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the authors characterize cycles?

2. How did the Lost Generation behave during the First Turning, according to the authors?

3. As the authors present information, how can a 'gray champion' bring the Fourth Turning to a climax?

4. Why do the authors delineate the idea of 'seasons of time'?

5. What is so important about the Etruscans?

6. What do the authors predict as a major catalyst in 2005?

7. Why is a First Turning called a 'high'?

8. How did the Baby Boomers behave during the First Turning according to the authors?

9. What life do the authors see the 13ers living during the third turning?

10. How do the authors think Americans should feel about the Fourth Turning and why?

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