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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. What has the Third Turning brought to living standards?
(a) Improvements.
(b) Tragedy.
(c) Conflict.
(d) Danger.

2. What purpose does the Nomads' exhaustion from revolutionary change have?
(a) To hurt other archetypes.
(b) To gain momentum in politics.
(c) To slow social change.
(d) To spread wealth in the classes.

3. What do all major cultures acknowledge according to the authors?
(a) Artistic influences.
(b) Educational needs.
(c) Religious historical cycles.
(d) Transportation necessities.

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

5. What happens during a second turning?
(a) Heroes are young adults.
(b) Nomads are born.
(c) Elder prophets die.
(d) Artists become elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. By 1984, what emerged as the culture debate according to the authors?

2. What do Prophets do during a Second Turning according to the authors?

3. What do Awakenings do for people according to the authors?

4. When do the authors predict the resolution of the Fourth Turning might come?

5. What will happen with a revolutionary change?

(see the answer key)

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