1. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Otranto.
(b) Fiume.
(c) Barletta.
(d) Trieste.

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

3. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) German.

4. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Camus.
(b) Dreyfus.
(c) Smith.
(d) Rousseau.

5. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?
(a) Louis de Saint-Just and Marie Antoinette.
(b) The Jacobins and German Romantics.
(c) Louis the XVI and Napoleon.
(d) Robespierre and Marat.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?

2. When was Abu Musab al-Suri born?

3. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?

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

5. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?

(see the answer key)

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