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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. As stated in "Clearing a Space, when did a switch to social welfarism occur?
(a) 1948.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) After 1945.
(d) 1953.

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

3. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1814.
(b) 1822
(c) 1793.
(d) 1800.

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

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?
(a) Loss of interest in history.
(b) Sanitized history.
(c) History for the masses.
(d) Disregard for history.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?

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

5. When did D'Annunzio die?

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