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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Cycles of History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the authors and other historians view cycles of war?
(a) As something Americans endure better than others.
(b) As necessary evils that people will never understand.
(c) The death of one saeculum and the birth of the next.
(d) The start and end of a crisis.

2. What is reflected in future generations according to the authors?
(a) The love for children.
(b) Death.
(c) The repetition of a four part cycle.
(d) Religious beliefs.

3. What happens in 'linear time' according to the authors?
(a) It creates chaos.
(b) It brings inflation.
(c) It brings hope and we never expect catastrophe.
(d) It brings depression and we expect the worst.

4. What happens to civic order during the Second Turning according to the authors?
(a) People question it but remain silent.
(b) People renew their beliefs in it.
(c) It comes under attack from a new system of values.
(d) It is strengthened.

5. What happens during a third turning?
(a) Elder prophets die.
(b) Artists become elders.
(c) Heroes are young adults.
(d) Nomads are born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mt. Rushmore represent according to the authors?

2. What did the Etruscans know?

3. What was the generational cycle of 1690?

4. What fascinated the Romans according to the authors?

5. How is Arnold Toynbee's cycle characterized?

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