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

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

3. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?
(a) After the Russian incursion in Ukraine.
(b) Shortly after 9/11.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2012.

4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1720s.
(b) 1730s.
(c) 1750s.
(d) 1740s.

5. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Camus.
(c) Smith.
(d) Dreyfus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?

2. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

3. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?

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

5. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?

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