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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. When did Voltaire die?
(a) 1753.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1781.

2. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Camus.
(b) Dreyfus.
(c) Smith.
(d) Rousseau.

3. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Russia.
(c) Turkey.
(d) North Africa.

4. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?
(a) Diderot.
(b) Kant.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Hume.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

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

3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

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

5. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?

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