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

2. When was The Adventures of Telemachus published?
(a) 1686.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1701.
(d) 1704.

3. How many lives were said to have been lost in building Western city on the banks of the Neva?
(a) 25,000.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 55,000.
(d) 215,000.

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

5. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Turkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?

2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

3. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

4. At stated in "Losing My Religion," by when did civilization become synonymous with progress through the "triumph of the will" (132)?

5. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?

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