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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 did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?
(a) 2004.
(b) Shortly after 9/11.
(c) 2012.
(d) After the Russian incursion in Ukraine.

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

3. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Khaki.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

4. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1911.

5. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?
(a) 1870s.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1894.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did D'Annunzio die?

3. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?

4. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

5. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?

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