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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 Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1822
(c) 1814.
(d) 1800.

2. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) North Africa.
(b) Libya.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Ghana.

3. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1868.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1871.

4. When did Santayana die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1952.

5. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
(a) William McKinley.
(b) Abraham Lincoln.
(c) James Garfield.
(d) John F. Kennedy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

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

4. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?

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

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