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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. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?
(a) Louis the XVI and Napoleon.
(b) The Jacobins and German Romantics.
(c) Robespierre and Marat.
(d) Louis de Saint-Just and Marie Antoinette.

2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?
(a) 1833.
(b) 1829.
(c) About 1820.
(d) Around 1830.

3. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
(a) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.
(b) Essay on the Origin of Languages.
(c) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(d) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.

4. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?
(a) 580.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) 330.

5. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Eretria.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Mycenaea.
(d) Chalcis.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

2. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

3. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

4. When did Voltaire die?

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

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