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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) 2004.
(b) Shortly after 9/11.
(c) After the Russian incursion in Ukraine.
(d) 2012.

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

3. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Giorgio Orelli.
(b) Madame de Stael.
(c) Bichsel.
(d) Spitteler.

4. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) The Life of the Mind.
(b) The Human Condition.
(c) Crises of the Republic.
(d) The Origins of Totalitarianism.

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?
(a) Around 1830.
(b) 1833.
(c) 1829.
(d) About 1820.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

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

4. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

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

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