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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12, The Eternal Return.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do generations often define themselves according to the authors?
(a) By whatever the media says about them.
(b) Against the shadow of the generation two steps prior to them.
(c) By the former generation.
(d) With their parents' generation.

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

3. In America's saeculum in the First Turning, what is the range of the period?
(a) World War I and World War II.
(b) The end of World War II and the Kennedy Assassination.
(c) The Great Depression and the Vietnam conflict ending.
(d) The end of the Civil War and the start of World War II.

4. According to the authors, what do all Third Turnings consist of?
(a) Shared goods and community.
(b) Social decay and individualism.
(c) Religion and education.
(d) Starvation and poverty.

5. What happens in 'cyclical time' according to the authors?
(a) History starts and stops frequently.
(b) History repeats itself with only temporary progress.
(c) History hurts the minority.
(d) History cannot complete its beginnings.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, what will the 13ers bring to mid-life during the Fourth Turning?

2. What was the generational cycle of 1690?

3. How do the authors present American history?

4. What happens in 'chaotic time' according to the authors?

5. What was the GI Generation's reputation during the Second Turning according to the authors?

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