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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 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 3 centuries.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 50 years.

2. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2008.

3. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1980s.

4. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2005.

5. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Green.
(b) Khaki.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?

2. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?

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

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

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

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