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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1860s.
(d) 1870s.

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)?
(a) About 90 years.
(b) More than a century.
(c) 120 years.
(d) 70 years.

3. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Savior.
(b) Retirement.
(c) Money.
(d) Messiah.

4. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?

2. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

3. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?

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

5. When did D'Annunzio die?

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