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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Finding True Freedom and Equality: The Heritage of Nihilism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 14 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 2 million.

2. Since when had the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to Polish exiles?
(a) Early-18th century.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1746.
(d) Late-18th century.

3. When did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1996.

4. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1979.

5. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?
(a) 1770s.
(b) 1790s.
(c) 1760s.
(d) 1780s.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a United Nations document published that said "rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments" (118)?

2. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?

4. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

5. When did Santayana die?

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