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

2. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1873.

3. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?
(a) A tramp.
(b) An idiot.
(c) A demogogue.
(d) A traitor.

4. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?
(a) Abicht.
(b) Kant.
(c) Boulanger.
(d) Rousseau.

5. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Ship's captain.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?

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

5. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

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