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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?

2. What is reflected in future generations according to the authors?

3. What influences Americans' view of the First Turning according to the authors?

4. What was the generational cycle of 1790?

5. According to the authors, Americans identify generations by determining what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the authors characterize cycles?

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

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

4. How do archetypes interact during a Fourth Turning?

5. What problems do the authors say ideologies bring?

6. Why do the authors remind readers once again against thinking of time as linear?

7. As the authors present the information, why did the Second Turning come about at the time of Kennedy's assassination?

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

9. How do the authors characterize the Boomer Generation?

10. According to the authors, which archetype creates the most problems during the Fourth Turning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do the authors prove that cycles are circular in a "perfect and unbreakable repetition"? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What role do the authors think these ideas (of Turnings and archetypes) play with moral reform in America?

Essay Topic 3

What is the overall greatest conflict Americans face? Use the book to support your decision.

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