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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Finding True Freedom and Equality: The Heritage of Nihilism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Voltaire die?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1778.
(d) 1753.

2. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?
(a) 1760s.
(b) 1780s.
(c) 1790s.
(d) 1770s.

3. Who stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Dickens.
(c) Mickiewicz.
(d) McEwan.

4. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?
(a) A demogogue.
(b) A tramp.
(c) An idiot.
(d) A traitor.

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) Disregard for history.
(b) Sanitized history.
(c) Loss of interest in history.
(d) History for the masses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?

2. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?

3. 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?

4. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?

5. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

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