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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What will the pre-crisis years see in the Fourth Turning according to the authors?
(a) Struggles with Elders.
(b) Increasing distrust of the government.
(c) Disappearance of family values.
(d) Hope in new politicians.

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

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

10. What do the authors think extends a saeculum backward and a saeculum forward?
(a) History books.
(b) Photo albums.
(c) Cultural memory.
(d) Generations.

11. In 1984, what happened to social structures of unity according to the authors?
(a) Artists began fixing them.
(b) They showed signs of weakness.
(c) They grew stronger.
(d) They had collapsed.

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

13. What will the Fourth Turning signal, according to the authors?
(a) The best parts of America.
(b) The revitalization of America's youth.
(c) Opportunities for the youth.
(d) The absolute bottom of the American spirit and its regeneration.

14. According to the authors, what will 13er politicians do during the pre-crisis?
(a) Spend out of budget.
(b) Make peace with other countries.
(c) Create worthless laws.
(d) Mediate conflicts.

15. What best describes the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) Small educational progression.
(b) Humanitarian demise.
(c) Huge monetary gains.
(d) Great social upheaval.

Short Answer Questions

1. In pre-crisis years, how do the authors predict people will feel about government benefits?

2. How do the authors argue that we should feel about the Fourth Turning?

3. What do Prophets do during a Fourth Turning according to the authors?

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

5. What in a Fourth Turning cannot be foreseen, according to the authors?

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