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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 King Umberto I of Italy survive an attempt on his life made by an anarchist?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1879.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1880.

2. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(b) Asa McGray.
(c) David Low Dodge.
(d) Jon Meacham.

3. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2011.

4. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?
(a) 168.
(b) 159.
(c) 183.
(d) 171.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Abu Musab al-Suri born?

2. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?

3. In 1886, how many strikers were shot outside the McCormic Reaper Works?

4. As stated in "Finding True Freedom and Equlity," when did foreign radicals make up a large number of the radical Communards in Paris?

5. Who stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?

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