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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 did the Silent Generation do involving social reform according to the authors?
(a) Sought to improve it.
(b) Ignored it.
(c) Kept it hidden in the media.
(d) Hired others to help with it.

2. Who often misses seasonal changes according to the authors?
(a) Republicans and Democrats.
(b) Artists.
(c) Elders.
(d) Police.

3. As the book closes, what do the authors emphasize that Americans should understand about time?
(a) It is not linear.
(b) God controls time.
(c) It is not cyclial.
(d) It never begins anew.

4. How do the authors end the book?
(a) Giving facts of our futures.
(b) Reciting history lessons.
(c) Providing warnings.
(d) Asking questions for the future.

5. What in a Fourth Turning can be foreseen, according to the authors?
(a) A political takeover.
(b) A change of traditions.
(c) A catalyst.
(d) A disagreement.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often do new generations develop?

3. During the First Turning, what was the American family like?

4. When do the authors predict the resolution of the Fourth Turning might come?

5. What do young adults act like in the general cycle of life according to the authors?

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