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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the authors present American history?
(a) They present it from present day backward.
(b) They divide chapters by generations.
(c) They turn history into prophesy.
(d) They show different US presidents' points of view.

2. What influences Americans' view of the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) Elaborate houses.
(b) Old classic television.
(c) Sustained marriages.
(d) Modern-set movies.

3. How are revitalizations divided?
(a) Through monetary means.
(b) Within communities.
(c) Into saeculums.
(d) By gender roles.

4. What was the generational cycle of 1740?
(a) Philadelphia's Growing Generation.
(b) Washington's Country Generation.
(c) Jonathan Edward's Awakening Generation.
(d) The Family Values Generation.

5. What describes the Baby Boomers' educations according to the authors?
(a) Poor.
(b) Sub-par.
(c) Excellent.
(d) Nonexistent.

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

7. What do the authors mean when they state all cycles are circular?
(a) They contain even numbers of years.
(b) They eventually reach all stages.
(c) They have perfect and unbreakable repetition.
(d) They are perfectly a century.

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

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

10. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?
(a) War and peace.
(b) Wealth and poverty.
(c) Marriage and divorce.
(d) Happiness and despair.

11. During the Third Turning, what happens to institutions according to the authors?
(a) They gain momentum.
(b) The strengthen.
(c) They destroy themselves.
(d) They weaken.

12. What happened to the Etruscans?
(a) The Roman Empire replaced them.
(b) They refused to pay their bills.
(c) They never realized history was cyclical.
(d) The Victorians controlled them.

13. According to the authors, Americans identify generations by determining what?
(a) The discord within a generation.
(b) The death from a generation.
(c) The wealth a generation forms.
(d) The length of a generation.

14. What is the most recent second turning according to the authors?
(a) Lack of parenting in the 2000s.
(b) Sitcoms of the 1980s.
(c) Tax revolts of the early 1980s.
(d) Loud clothing of the 1990s.

15. What was the First Turning's time period like?
(a) American doubt and retreat.
(b) England's hold over America.
(c) American dominance.
(d) American poverty and fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the New Prophets during the First Turning?

2. In America's saeculum in the First Turning, what is the range of the period?

3. What happens during a first turning?

4. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'children'?

5. When does a generation come to be recognized?

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