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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. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Savior.
(b) Retirement.
(c) Money.
(d) Messiah.

2. 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.

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

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

5. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1683.
(d) 1719.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?

2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?

3. When did D'Annunzio die?

4. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?

5. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

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