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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. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
(a) James Garfield.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) William McKinley.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

2. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1995.

3. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1919.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?

2. When did D'Annunzio die?

3. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

4. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

5. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?

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