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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: Forgotten Conjunctures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) Nearly 200.
(b) About 150.
(c) 89.
(d) 115.

2. When did D'Annunzio die?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1937.

3. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Giorgio Orelli.
(b) Bichsel.
(c) Spitteler.
(d) Madame de Stael.

4. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1908.

5. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Syria.
(d) Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

2. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?

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

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

5. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?

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