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This test consists of 5 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) Grow religious conflicts.
(d) Nothing.

2. According to the authors, what did the 1773 Fourth Turning grow out of?
(a) A smoldering discontent.
(b) A need to protect the new country.
(c) An inability to find spies.
(d) A movement of breaking with family.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the authors, how do Artists socially interact during Third Turnings?

2. What in a Fourth Turning can be foreseen, according to the authors?

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

4. When was the spirit of America at its height according to the authors?

5. What do the authors think extends a saeculum backward and a saeculum forward?

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