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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. How do Americans view the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) As a 'high.'
(b) As depressing.
(c) As a 'low.'
(d) As promising.

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

3. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?
(a) Four weather elements.
(b) Three stages of life.
(c) Four seasons.
(d) Each century.

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

5. Why are the men of Mt. Rushmore together according to the authors?
(a) They are historical figures.
(b) The four archetypes function together.
(c) They are from the same time period.
(d) They were friends.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many historians record cycles?

2. What do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?

3. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?

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

5. What represents the Baby Boomers according to the authors?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the correct time that this chapter presents for Americans to embrace?

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

3. How do the authors characterize the Boomer Generation?

4. How do the authors offer hope as the book closes?

5. How do the 'cabbage patch kids' raising influence their adulthood according to the authors?

6. What are the authors' recommendations concerning seasonal activities?

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

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

9. According to the authors, what happens to generations when they pass through a crisis?

10. What problems do the authors say ideologies bring?

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