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

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

3. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1913.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?

2. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

3. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

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

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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