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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 should Americans expect concerning living standards in the future according to the authors?
(a) Living standards will positively change slowly.
(b) Living standards will be stagnant.
(c) Living standards will improve quickly.
(d) Living standards will decline.

2. What happens in 'linear time' according to the authors?
(a) It brings inflation.
(b) It brings hope and we never expect catastrophe.
(c) It creates chaos.
(d) It brings depression and we expect the worst.

3. What is the most recent second turning according to the authors?
(a) Loud clothing of the 1990s.
(b) Sitcoms of the 1980s.
(c) Tax revolts of the early 1980s.
(d) Lack of parenting in the 2000s.

4. What is a 'saeculum' according to the authors?
(a) A history that people ignore.
(b) The despair in communities.
(c) The most recent cycle.
(d) A utopia.

5. What is reflected in future generations according to the authors?
(a) The love for children.
(b) Death.
(c) The repetition of a four part cycle.
(d) Religious beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do generations do when they pass through a crisis according to the authors?

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

3. What has the Third Turning brought to living standards?

4. What comprises the Third Turning according to the authors?

5. What did the Etruscans know?

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