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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. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1989.

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

3. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Otranto.
(b) Barletta.
(c) Trieste.
(d) Fiume.

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 19th century.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?

4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?

5. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?

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