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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) Blue.
(b) Khaki.
(c) Green.
(d) Black.

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

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

4. 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) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

2. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?

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

4. When did D'Annunzio die?

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?

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