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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. What will the Fourth Turning signal, according to the authors?
(a) Opportunities for the youth.
(b) The absolute bottom of the American spirit and its regeneration.
(c) The revitalization of America's youth.
(d) The best parts of America.

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

3. What year does the book's introduction address?
(a) 2010.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1902.

4. How does the archetypal pattern begin?
(a) Future old Prophets are born.
(b) Old Prophets die.
(c) Old Prophets lose their jobs to the youth.
(d) Old Prophets write history.

5. What will the pre-crisis years see in the Fourth Turning according to the authors?
(a) Increasing distrust of the government.
(b) Hope in new politicians.
(c) Disappearance of family values.
(d) Struggles with Elders.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Silent Generation born?

2. How do crisis eras begin?

3. What happens during a second turning?

4. What did the Silent Generation do involving social reform according to the authors?

5. According to the authors, what did the 1860 Fourth Turning grow out of?

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