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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Clearing a Space: History's Winners and Their Illusions.

Multiple Choice 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)?
(a) About 90 years.
(b) More than a century.
(c) 70 years.
(d) 120 years.

2. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1843.
(d) 1840.

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

4. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1911.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

2. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

3. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

4. When was The Post-American World written?

5. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

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