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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Third Turning: Culture Wars (1984-2005?).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What represents the Baby Boomers according to the authors?
(a) Bewitched.
(b) Dennis the Menace.
(c) Mickey Mouse.
(d) Mighty Mouse.

2. What do Awakenings do for people according to the authors?
(a) Change cultures and renew the spirit.
(b) Create hostility.
(c) Bond old traditional ideas to new ones.
(d) Grow accountability and spirituality.

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

4. According to the authors, Americans identify generations by determining what?
(a) The wealth a generation forms.
(b) The length of a generation.
(c) The discord within a generation.
(d) The death from a generation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do many historians record cycles?

2. By 1984, what were Americans cynical about according to the authors?

3. What happened to the Etruscans?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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