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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Loving Oneself Through Others: Progress and Its Contradictions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?
(a) Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard.
(b) Johann Georg Hamann.
(c) Johann Heinrich Abicht.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

2. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1777.

3. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1736.

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 16th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 18th century.

5. 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) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?

2. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?

3. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?

4. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?

5. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

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