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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. 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) 3 centuries.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 200 years.

2. When did Emile Henry bomb a cafe in Paris?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1894.
(d) 2003.

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

4. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) Nearly 400.
(b) 375.
(c) 415.
(d) About 350.

5. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
(a) 235.
(b) About 150.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) 175.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Voltaire die?

2. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

3. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?

4. What was the first country where autocrats tried modernity?

5. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?

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