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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. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?
(a) Bring the Fourth Turning to a climax.
(b) Grow relationships during the Fourth Turning.
(c) Close the Fourth Turning.
(d) Create conflict in the Fourth Turning.

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

3. When did the American saecular cycle begin?
(a) At the start of World War I.
(b) When King George III taxed America.
(c) In the beginning of Ango-American modernity.
(d) During the Civil War.

4. What did Medieval Christianity replace?
(a) The Roman Empire.
(b) The Victorians.
(c) The Etruscans.
(d) The Vikings.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Through what do the cycles require rebirth?

2. What are examples of social indicators?

3. What do children do in the general cycle of life according to the authors?

4. What happens to old values during the First Turning according to the authors?

5. What happens during the fourth tide?

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