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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. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
(a) Montaigne.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Balfour.
(d) Bacon.

2. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1993.

3. When was Voltaire born?
(a) 1679.
(b) 1694.
(c) 1688.
(d) 1668.

4. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1833.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

2. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?

3. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

4. When did Voltaire die?

5. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?

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