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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 early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1833.

2. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1822
(c) 1793.
(d) 1814.

3. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?
(a) Diaz.
(b) Zapata.
(c) Huerta.
(d) Madero.

4. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?
(a) 1970s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1940s.

5. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1732.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1750.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did D'Annunzio die?

2. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?

3. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?

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

5. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?

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