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

2. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1908.

3. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) 89.
(b) 115.
(c) About 150.
(d) Nearly 200.

4. When did D'Annunzio die?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

2. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?

3. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

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

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

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