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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. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Giorgio Orelli.
(b) Madame de Stael.
(c) Spitteler.
(d) Bichsel.

2. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
(a) Henry Moore.
(b) Turgot.
(c) Adam Smith.
(d) Mitchell.

3. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 3 centuries.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?

3. When did revolution break out across Europe?

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

5. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?

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