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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?

2. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

3. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

2. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?

3. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?

4. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?

5. In "Clearing a Space," what became the universalist creed and what was seen as a marker of progress?

6. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?

7. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

8. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?

9. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?

10. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist. What was the goal of Hindu nationalists? How did Ghandi oppose those goals? What is revealed about nationalism in India through Ghandi’s assassination?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra shares his upbringing and education. Why does Mishra share information about his upbringing and education? What does he reveal about prejudice and bias by sharing this information?

Essay Topic 3

Global capitalism sets up expectations of what life will be like, especially for the downtrodden. What do people expect when capitalism is implemented? What mismatch is there between expectations and reality? Why are people disappointed at the results of capitalism? How does this create tendencies for violence? What is revealed about the results of global capitalism because of the mismatch between what people expect from life and the speed in which life changes?

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