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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. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1986.
(c) Around 1994.
(d) Soon after 1989.

2. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1789.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1774.

3. When did Santayana die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1953.

4. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1719.
(d) 1743.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

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

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

4. When did D'Annunzio die?

5. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?

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