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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language was The Blind Owl written in?
(a) Persian.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) French.

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

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

4. Who does Mishra consider to be the most convincing and influential public intellectual today, who is also the moral voice of the Church?
(a) Dietrich.
(b) Trump.
(c) Obama.
(d) Pope Francis.

5. Where did Dylann Roof killed nine people in 2015?
(a) Restaurant.
(b) Church.
(c) School.
(d) Post office.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in "Losing My Religion," how long did the postcolonial world have to create the political and economic developments that took more than a century to develop in Europe and America?

2. What religion does Mishra say is taking over India?

3. As stated in the "Epilogue: Finding Reality," since when have postcolonial idealism and socialism faded as economic and moral alternatives?

4. When did Suzanne Voilquin travel to Egypt with her message of female empowerment?

5. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?

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