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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 was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2010.

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

3. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2007.

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

5. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1720s.
(b) 1730s.
(c) 1750s.
(d) 1740s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

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

3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

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

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

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