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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Seasons of Life.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What comprises the Third Turning according to the authors?
(a) A weird hurried approach to life.
(b) Total destruction.
(c) An unraveling.
(d) Increase in wealth and education.

3. 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 question it but remain silent.
(c) People renew their beliefs in it.
(d) It is strengthened.

4. What happened to the Etruscans?
(a) They never realized history was cyclical.
(b) The Roman Empire replaced them.
(c) The Victorians controlled them.
(d) They refused to pay their bills.

5. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?
(a) An idea of a male God.
(b) They follow several rules.
(c) A change in transportation.
(d) A changing of clothing styles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Etruscans know?

2. How are revitalizations divided?

3. According to the authors, what have people sought to redefine in the last 150 years?

4. The authors say that what comprises circular cycles?

5. From their order of experiences, what do the authors say generations form?

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