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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Loving Oneself Through Others: Progress and Its Contradictions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) 89.
(b) Nearly 200.
(c) About 150.
(d) 115.

2. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) 415.
(b) Nearly 400.
(c) 375.
(d) About 350.

3. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1745.
(d) 1732.

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

5. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1749.
(d) 1763.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?

2. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

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

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. When did Diderot write Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville?

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