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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. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) About 150.
(b) Nearly 200.
(c) 89.
(d) 115.

2. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1921.

3. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1911.

4. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 3 centuries.

5. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

2. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

3. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

4. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?

5. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?

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