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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, A Fourth Turning Prophecy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the authors, what do Artists do during Third Turnings?
(a) Save money.
(b) Speed up social change.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Grow religious conflicts.

2. How do many historians record cycles?
(a) Depressions.
(b) Revitalizations
(c) Birth records.
(d) War.

3. What was the clash of powerful personalities during the beginning of Anglo-American modernity?
(a) Europe and America.
(b) Wars of the Roses and the Protestant Reformation.
(c) The Allies and the Axis powers.
(d) The North and the South.

4. What was the generational cycle of 1690?
(a) The Slavery Generation.
(b) John Smith's Exploratory Generation.
(c) King Carter's Glorious Generation.
(d) Queen Elizabeth's Religious Generation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened economically during the Second Turning?

2. What happens during a third turning?

3. By 1984, what had Boomers realized according to the authors?

4. What is another name for a 'gray champion'?

5. What do Nomads do during a Fourth Turning according to the authors?

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