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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do the authors imagine as a possible gray champion?
(a) Rush Limbaugh.
(b) Al Gore.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

3. What major event do the authors think could the next cycle bring?
(a) Different monetary beliefs.
(b) A new generation.
(c) Anything major.
(d) Something small.

4. According to the authors, what do parents of Heroes do?
(a) Protect them against social conflict.
(b) Allow them to grow without traditional constraints.
(c) Discourage them from growing up and leaving home.
(d) Put them to work early in life.

5. What happens to Nomads during a Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) They become stronger.
(b) Others ignore them.
(c) They die.
(d) They gain money.

6. When do the authors predict the resolution of the Fourth Turning might come?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2026.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2222.

7. By 1984, what had Boomers realized according to the authors?
(a) They needed to free their children.
(b) They needed to retire.
(c) They wanted to change their pasts.
(d) They had indulged themselves.

8. How do the authors argue that we should feel about the Fourth Turning?
(a) Limited.
(b) Scared.
(c) Unlimited.
(d) Aware.

9. According to the authors, what do Heroes do during a Second Turning?
(a) Raise Artists.
(b) Create wealth.
(c) Forget their ambitions.
(d) Become elders.

10. How should Americans avoid seeing history according to the authors?
(a) As inevitable progress.
(b) As reversible.
(c) As unimportant.
(d) As lies.

11. What do Artists do during a Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) Ignore the youth.
(b) Gain more educations.
(c) Give away wealth.
(d) Try to improve society.

12. Why should Americans avoid being ideological according to the authors?
(a) Ideological ideas never succeed.
(b) No ideology helps the future.
(c) No ideology is above the seasons.
(d) Ideological ideas are against God.

13. By 1984, what emerged as the culture debate according to the authors?
(a) The Best Television Program.
(b) The Most Influential Person.
(c) The Technological Advancement.
(d) The American Way of Life.

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

15. According to the authors, what might happen if Americans weather our Fourth Turning well?
(a) Our futures will be controlled by others.
(b) Much of the world would follow.
(c) Much of the world will disown us.
(d) Americans will be wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, what did the 1773 Fourth Turning grow out of?

2. According to the authors, what do Awakenings embody?

3. What should Americans avoid "today" according to the authors?

4. What options for a catalyst of the Fourth Turning do the authors suggest?

5. What brought out Americans' spiritual searching during the Second Turning according to the authors?

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