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

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

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

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

5. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?
(a) After the Russian incursion in Ukraine.
(b) 2012.
(c) Shortly after 9/11.
(d) 2004.

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. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

3. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

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

5. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

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