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

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

3. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

4. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
(a) 1719.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1683.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?

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

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

4. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

5. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

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