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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cycles of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens during the fourth tide?
(a) Artists become elders.
(b) Nomads are born.
(c) Elder prophets die.
(d) The heroes are young adults.

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

3. What do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?
(a) What to save money for.
(b) How to keep families together.
(c) How to be kind.
(d) What is in store for them.

4. What were John Adams and Dwight Eisenhower considered?
(a) Artists.
(b) Heroes.
(c) Elder prophets.
(d) Nomads.

5. What fascinated the Romans according to the authors?
(a) Their future earnings.
(b) Battle scenes and rescues.
(c) The Etrucan idea of a periodic cycle.
(d) Hospitals and medical personnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. From their order of experiences, what do the authors say generations form?

2. What comprises the First Turning according to the authors?

3. According to the authors, what have people sought to redefine in the last 150 years?

4. What happens during a third turning?

5. What was the generational cycle of 1640?

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