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

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

3. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1994.

4. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Bichsel.
(b) Madame de Stael.
(c) Giorgio Orelli.
(d) Spitteler.

5. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1740s.
(b) 1720s.
(c) 1750s.
(d) 1730s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?

2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

3. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?

4. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?

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

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