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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. What will the catalyst of the Fourth Turning trigger according to the authors?
(a) A return to the Third Turning.
(b) A series of events that will lead into a new social order.
(c) A promise from younger generations.
(d) A keeping with tradition.

2. When a time period produces a revolutionary change, what stage are the 'heroes'?
(a) Elder.
(b) Midlife.
(c) Birth.
(d) Young adults.

3. What do the Firth Turnings in American history represent?
(a) The building of a new government.
(b) The destruction of a society.
(c) Gender roles changing.
(d) The construction and ossification of a new social order.

4. What were Jon Edwards and William Lloyd Garrison considered?
(a) Heroes.
(b) Artists.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Prophets.

5. What was the generational cycle of 1600?
(a) Religious and Arts Appreciation Generation.
(b) Roman Countrymen Generation.
(c) Shakespeare's Elizabethan Generation.
(d) Wheatley's Philosophical Generation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Heroes do during a Fourth Turning according to the authors?

2. As the authors believe, what does the Silent Generation realize as they become 'neoseniors'?

3. Who do the authors give the responsibility to concerning history at the end of the next saeculum?

4. What do cycles in major cultures share according to the authors?

5. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?

(see the answer key)

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