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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 was the First Turning's time period like?
(a) American dominance.
(b) American doubt and retreat.
(c) England's hold over America.
(d) American poverty and fear.

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

3. During the First Turning, why did Americans become conformists?
(a) Their confidence.
(b) Their overly-educated youth.
(c) Their lack of money.
(d) Their new technology.

4. What do young adults act like in the general cycle of life according to the authors?
(a) Tired.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Useless.
(d) Vital.

5. What happens to old values during the First Turning according to the authors?
(a) People improve them.
(b) People abandon them.
(c) People change them.
(d) People embrace them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens to Nomads during a Second Turning according to the authors?

3. As the book opens, how do the American people behave according to the authors?

4. How do the authors present American history?

5. Throughout the Unraveling, what does the Silent Generation prefer according to the authors?

(see the answer key)

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