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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 do Awakenings do for people according to the authors?
(a) Change cultures and renew the spirit.
(b) Bond old traditional ideas to new ones.
(c) Grow accountability and spirituality.
(d) Create hostility.

2. What comprises the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) A time period of drug use.
(b) A time period of chaos.
(c) An era of education.
(d) An era of spiritual rebirth.

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

4. According to the authors, what did the 1929 Fourth Turning grow out of?
(a) The president's assassination.
(b) A keeping with customs.
(c) The demeaning attitudes of the majority.
(d) A materialistic 1920s.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?

4. What will the catalyst of the Fourth Turning trigger according to the authors?

5. Who controlled much of the world during the First Turning?

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