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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 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 3 centuries.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 75 years.

2. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1843.

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

4. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1921.

5. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?

5. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

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