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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Seasons of Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to old values during the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) People embrace them.
(b) People change them.
(c) People improve them.
(d) People abandon them.

2. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?
(a) Jobs and retirements.
(b) A Christian cycle of death and rebirth.
(c) Water and its forms.
(d) Schooling.

3. What comprises the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) The people become educated.
(b) The people wreck communities.
(c) The people strengthen civic institutions.
(d) The people destroy their health.

4. What is a 'saeculum' according to the authors?
(a) The despair in communities.
(b) The most recent cycle.
(c) A utopia.
(d) A history that people ignore.

5. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?
(a) The proper belief in education.
(b) The proper philosophy of time.
(c) The correct use of money.
(d) The healthy part of life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?

2. What fascinated the Romans according to the authors?

3. What comprises the Third Turning according to the authors?

4. How often does each saeculum in the United States last?

5. Through what do the cycles require rebirth?

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