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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 did the Silent Generation wear?
(a) Gray flannel suit.
(b) Expensive clothing.
(c) Loud colors and makeup.
(d) Jeans.

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

3. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?
(a) The start and end of a crisis.
(b) The death of one saeculum and the birth of the next.
(c) As necessary evils that people will never understand.
(d) As something Americans endure better than others.

4. What are examples of social indicators?
(a) Transportation means.
(b) Wage growth and political activism.
(c) Death rate.
(d) Clothing styles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?

2. Why do the authors look toward prophecy?

3. What do midlifers do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?

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

5. What do children do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the authors, what struggles do the Boomers face as they age?

2. How do generations correlate to certain personality archetypes according to the authors?

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

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

5. What hope do the authors have for the New Silent Generation?

6. Why is the length of a saeculum in the United States significant?

7. How do rhythms in social indicators reflect turnings?

8. What role do the authors say the Baby Boomer Generation played in the massive changes of the 1960-70s?

9. How do archetypes interact during a Fourth Turning?

10. What effect does the authors' immediate statement of the theme have?

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