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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Finding True Freedom and Equality: The Heritage of Nihilism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At stated in "Losing My Religion," by when did civilization become synonymous with progress through the "triumph of the will" (132)?
(a) Late-19th century.
(b) Early-20th century.
(c) Early-19th century.
(d) Late-18th century.

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

3. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

4. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Chalcis.
(b) Eretria.
(c) Mycenaea.
(d) Sparta.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?

2. How long had Bakunin been dead when Alexander II was assassinated?

3. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?

4. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?

5. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?

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