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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Losing My Religion: Islam, Secularism and Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?
(a) Hundreds of thousands.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

2. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?
(a) Barkov.
(b) Andreev.
(c) Dmitriev.
(d) Pushkin.

3. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Eretria.
(c) Chalcis.
(d) Mycenaea.

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

5. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?
(a) Huerta.
(b) Zapata.
(c) Diaz.
(d) Madero.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

2. When was Voltaire born?

3. How much did the suit cost that an Indian Hindu revivalist prime minister wore?

4. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?

5. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?

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