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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 do the authors think Americans could learn from historical cycles?
(a) How to keep families together.
(b) What is in store for them.
(c) What to save money for.
(d) How to be kind.

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

3. What happens in 'chaotic time' according to the authors?
(a) History repeats itself.
(b) History brings happiness.
(c) History quickly finishes.
(d) History has no path.

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

5. During the Third Turning, what happens to institutions according to the authors?
(a) The strengthen.
(b) They gain momentum.
(c) They weaken.
(d) They destroy themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the Etruscans?

2. What happens to individualism during the Third Turning according to the authors?

3. What is the authors' fear as the book opens?

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

5. What comprises the First Turning according to the authors?

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