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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. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Savior.
(b) Retirement.
(c) Messiah.
(d) Money.

2. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Syria.
(d) Tunisia.

3. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1920.

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

5. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Indonesia.
(d) Java.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?

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

3. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?

4. When was the first televised beheading?

5. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

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