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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 old was Gandhi when he died?
(a) 81.
(b) 86.
(c) 74.
(d) 78.

2. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Balfour.
(c) Montaigne.
(d) Machiavelli.

3. How many Iraqis did McVeigh kill in cold blood during his time in the military?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 9.

4. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2004.

5. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1962.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?

2. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?

3. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?

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

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

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