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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. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?
(a) 330.
(b) 580.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Thousands.

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

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

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

5. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(b) Asa McGray.
(c) Jon Meacham.
(d) David Low Dodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?

2. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

3. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

4. When did D'Annunzio die?

5. When did Santayana die?

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