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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. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1837.

2. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) Around 1994.
(b) 1986.
(c) Soon after 1989.
(d) 1991.

3. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) Libya.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Ghana.
(d) South Africa.

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

5. How old was Gandhi when he died?
(a) 78.
(b) 81.
(c) 86.
(d) 74.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

2. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

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

4. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?

5. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?

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