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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Gray Champions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Through what do the cycles require rebirth?
(a) Work.
(b) Money.
(c) Connections.
(d) Recreation.

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

3. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'children'?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Artists.
(c) Prophets.
(d) Nomads.

4. How do many historians record cycles?
(a) Revitalizations
(b) War.
(c) Birth records.
(d) Depressions.

5. How do generations often define themselves according to the authors?
(a) With their parents' generation.
(b) Against the shadow of the generation two steps prior to them.
(c) By the former generation.
(d) By whatever the media says about them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to civic order during the Second Turning according to the authors?

3. What do the authors believe Americans have lost?

4. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?

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

(see the answer key)

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