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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) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1991.

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

3. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) 1991.
(b) Around 1994.
(c) 1986.
(d) Soon after 1989.

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

5. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1789.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

2. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?

3. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space, when did a switch to social welfarism occur?

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

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