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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Clearing a Space: History's Winners and Their Illusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1895
(c) 1890.
(d) 1892

2. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1905.

3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
(a) James Garfield.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) William McKinley.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

4. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1774.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1789.

5. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

2. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

4. When was The Post-American World written?

5. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

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