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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 civic order during the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) It comes under attack from a new system of values.
(b) People renew their beliefs in it.
(c) People question it but remain silent.
(d) It is strengthened.

2. What did the Etruscans know?
(a) That other cultures were stronger than theirs.
(b) That food was sustainable.
(c) That money did not matter.
(d) That history was cyclical.

3. How do the authors present American history?
(a) They show different US presidents' points of view.
(b) They turn history into prophesy.
(c) They divide chapters by generations.
(d) They present it from present day backward.

4. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?
(a) Marriage and divorce.
(b) Happiness and despair.
(c) War and peace.
(d) Wealth and poverty.

5. What is the most recent second turning according to the authors?
(a) Loud clothing of the 1990s.
(b) Tax revolts of the early 1980s.
(c) Lack of parenting in the 2000s.
(d) Sitcoms of the 1980s.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do many historians record cycles?

3. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?

4. What happened to the Etruscans?

5. As the book opens, how do the American people behave according to the authors?

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