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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Grocer.
(b) Watchmaker.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Farmer.

2. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Hume.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Kant.

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

4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1750s.
(b) 1740s.
(c) 1730s.
(d) 1720s.

5. When was The Adventures of Telemachus published?
(a) 1699.
(b) 1704.
(c) 1686.
(d) 1701.

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

7. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Turkey.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Tunisia.
(d) Russia.

8. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?
(a) 1736.
(b) 1729.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1743.

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

10. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Khaki.
(b) Green.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

11. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
(a) Adam Smith.
(b) Henry Moore.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Mitchell.

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

13. 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) 3 centuries.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 50 years.

14. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1786.

15. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1918.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?

2. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?

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

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?

5. When did Santayana die?

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