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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 do generations do when they pass through a crisis according to the authors?
(a) Save money for happier times.
(b) Close down as a protective mechanism.
(c) Produce a kind of institutional memory that is reflected through the next cycle of generations.
(d) Write so history is recorded.

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

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

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

5. Eventually, what happens to circular cycles?
(a) They have a moment of discontinuity.
(b) They disappear.
(c) They bore people.
(d) They become stronger.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do all major cultures acknowledge according to the authors?

3. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?

4. What happens in 'cyclical time' according to the authors?

5. What will happen with a revolutionary change?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How do the authors think Americans should feel about the Fourth Turning and why?

4. What is so important about the Etruscans?

5. What did the authors predict about the economy, and has that happened?

6. Why does the name 'gray champion' fit an elder prophet?

7. Why do the authors delineate the idea of 'seasons of time'?

8. In Western history, how do historians often present periodic history?

9. How do archetypes interact during a Fourth Turning?

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

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