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

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

3. 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) 70 years.
(b) About 90 years.
(c) More than a century.
(d) 120 years.

4. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) The Life of the Mind.
(b) The Origins of Totalitarianism.
(c) Crises of the Republic.
(d) The Human Condition.

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?
(a) Loss of interest in history.
(b) Disregard for history.
(c) History for the masses.
(d) Sanitized history.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

2. When did Santayana die?

3. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

4. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?

5. When was the first televised beheading?

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