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

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

3. What were Jon Edwards and William Lloyd Garrison considered?
(a) Prophets.
(b) Artists.
(c) Heroes.
(d) Nomads.

4. What happens to the New Prophets during the First Turning?
(a) New Prophets head to college.
(b) New Prophets are born.
(c) New Prophets head to the job market.
(d) New Prophets gain money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are examples of social indicators?

2. What was the generational cycle of 1790?

3. What happens during the fourth tide?

4. How does the archetypal pattern begin?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the time it takes for a generation to be recognized as the authors present this information?

2. Why do generations often define themselves against the shadow of the generation two steps prior to them, according to the authors?

3. Why do the authors say present-day Americans have an image of America's First Turning as a 'high'?

4. Why do the authors think Americans do not recognize cycles?

5. According to the authors, what does it take to bring on a revolutionary change?

6. Looking at the authors' information, why would the spirit of America decay during the Fourth Turning?

7. According to the authors, why are Thomas Jefferson and Ronald Reagan considered heroes?

8. Do the authors seem to stress learning about all revitalizations or movements?

9. How do the authors characterize the 1960-70s?

10. What is so important about the Etruscans?

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