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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 generations do when they pass through a crisis according to the authors?
(a) Write so history is recorded.
(b) Close down as a protective mechanism.
(c) Produce a kind of institutional memory that is reflected through the next cycle of generations.
(d) Save money for happier times.

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

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

4. How often does each saeculum in the United States last?
(a) We don't know yet.
(b) 80-100 years.
(c) 150-200 years.
(d) A decade.

5. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'heroes'?
(a) Young adults.
(b) Elder.
(c) Birth.
(d) Midlife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during a third turning?

2. What should Americans expect concerning living standards in the future according to the authors?

3. How do the authors present American history?

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

5. What were John Adams and Dwight Eisenhower considered?

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