1. When did James Macpherson publish ancient Gaelic poetry he said he discovered in Scotland?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1750.
(d) 1773.

2. When did Byron speak of Italian longing or independence?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1805.
(d) 1837.

3. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1940s.

4. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?
(a) Thousands.
(b) 330.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 580.

5. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1761.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

2. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?

3. How many states were in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation?

4. What religion does Mishra say is taking over India?

5. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?

(see the answer key)

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