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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. When did Ahmed Darrawi disappear and then resurface months later?

2. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?

3. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?

4. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Losing My Religion," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?

2. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?

3. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?

4. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ahmed Darrawi and what was his philosophy?

6. In "Losing My Religion," how was Iran transformed and what were the effects of the transformation?

7. In "Losing My Religion," what was a religious or medieval society?

8. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?

9. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what groups in the "recent past" (290) have used terrorist violence as a tactic?

10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did Bakunin view the future?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra believes that political revolutions have awakened the masses. How have political revolutions awakened the masses? What desires did political revolutions stir in the masses? How successful have political revolutions been in fulfilling the desires they have stirred? What have been the results of political revolutions?

Essay Topic 2

The author reveals negative effects of materialism and consumerism. How does the author think that the Atlantic West’s ideas and economic and social structures have impacted the world? What have materialism and consumerism replaced in cultures? What does Mishra reveal about the negative effects of materialism and consumerism?

Essay Topic 3

Mishra discusses free-market capitalism and economic life. When was free-market capitalism touted as the only way to organize economic life? What problems have arisen from the free-market capitalism economic system? What does the author communicate about free-market capitalism as a way to organize global economic life?

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