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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 11.
(d) 8.

2. When did Katherine Boo write Behind the Beautiful Forevers?
(a) 2008.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2017.
(d) 2012.

3. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) 580.
(d) 330.

4. When was Rousseau born?
(a) 1712.
(b) 1704.
(c) 1722.
(d) 1698.

5. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2009.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Napoleon die?

2. In what work did Goethe write that man "is born to fit into a limited situation" (339)?

3. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?

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

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how much religious education does the author say that most of the young men involved in recent terror attacks in Europe and America have had?

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