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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, A Fourth Turning Prophecy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will happen with a revolutionary change?
(a) A new gray champion.
(b) Conflicts resolve themselves.
(c) New educations will form.
(d) Old money will disappear.

2. How do the authors present American history?
(a) They divide chapters by generations.
(b) They present it from present day backward.
(c) They turn history into prophesy.
(d) They show different US presidents' points of view.

3. According to the authors, what did the 1929 Fourth Turning grow out of?
(a) A materialistic 1920s.
(b) The demeaning attitudes of the majority.
(c) The president's assassination.
(d) A keeping with customs.

4. By 1984, what were Americans cynical about according to the authors?
(a) Their traveling habits.
(b) Their backgrounds.
(c) Their construction methods.
(d) Their institutions.

5. How does the archetypal pattern begin?
(a) Old Prophets die.
(b) Old Prophets lose their jobs to the youth.
(c) Future old Prophets are born.
(d) Old Prophets write history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Prophets do during a Second Turning according to the authors?

2. What best describes the Second Turning according to the authors?

3. What do gray champions do to the Fourth Turning?

4. The authors say that present day Americans continue to acknowledge what periodic cycle?

5. As the authors believe, what does the Silent Generation realize as they become 'neoseniors'?

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