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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: Finding Reality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1910.

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

3. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?
(a) English.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Spanish.

4. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1902.

5. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Andreev.
(c) Dmitriev.
(d) Barkov.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

2. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?

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

4. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?

5. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?

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