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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, A Fourth Turning Prophecy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Throughout the Unraveling, what does the Silent Generation prefer according to the authors?
(a) Honesty and tradition.
(b) Quiet retreats.
(c) Loud parties.
(d) A yuppie lifestyle.

2. What do children do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?
(a) Eat.
(b) Complain.
(c) Steal.
(d) Grow.

3. What do Prophets do during a Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) Create art and writings.
(b) Challenge the failing value-stystem of older institutions.
(c) Stay in seclusion.
(d) Attend medical and law school.

4. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?
(a) As something Americans endure better than others.
(b) The start and end of a crisis.
(c) As necessary evils that people will never understand.
(d) The death of one saeculum and the birth of the next.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1984, what were Americans cynical about according to the authors?

2. What hit the Lost Generation hard?

3. What is a 'saeculum' according to the authors?

4. What happens during the fourth tide?

5. In 1984, what happened to social structures of unity according to the authors?

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