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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 did the 1860 Fourth Turning grow out of?
(a) A seemingly stable North and South compromise.
(b) A lack of money.
(c) A change in the government.
(d) A refusal to stay with seasonal activities.

2. What do Prophets do during a Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) Create art and writings.
(b) Challenge the failing value-stystem of older institutions.
(c) Attend medical and law school.
(d) Stay in seclusion.

3. When was the book published?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1959.

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

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

6. What brought out Americans' spiritual searching during the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) Racial inequality.
(b) Opposition to the Nixon Administration.
(c) The Moon Landing and Woodstock.
(d) Both Kennedy brothers' deaths.

7. What will Boomers want to do during economic trouble according to the authors?
(a) Keep their children in line.
(b) Become frugal homebodies.
(c) Start community programs.
(d) Maintain their high-consuption life styles.

8. In preparation, how do the authors think parents should raise children?
(a) Without spoiling them.
(b) Without coddling them.
(c) With extra care.
(d) With emotions disregarded.

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

10. For what is the Fourth Turning an opportunity according to the authors?
(a) Reflection and quietness.
(b) Victory and great deeds.
(c) Power and individualism.
(d) To grow individual wealth.

11. What are Americans all part of according to the authors?
(a) A vast reach of time.
(b) God.
(c) Inevitable decline.
(d) A hold on other countries.

12. During the Second Turning, what did most Americans strive to become according to the authors?
(a) Smarter.
(b) More powerful.
(c) More humanitarian.
(d) Thriftier.

13. What type of activities should Americans participate in as the Fourth Turning approaches?
(a) Community.
(b) Seasonal.
(c) Monetary.
(d) Educational.

14. In preparation, how do the authors think Americans should solve local problems?
(a) Support local stores.
(b) Prepare new communities.
(c) Gain trust.
(d) Raise taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, what will 13er politicians do during the pre-crisis?

2. What can Americans do wit the coming crisis of the Fourth Turning according to the authors?

3. How should Americans avoid seeing history according to the authors?

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

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

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