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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) The Life of the Mind.
(b) The Human Condition.
(c) Crises of the Republic.
(d) The Origins of Totalitarianism.

2. When did Diderot write Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville?
(a) 1751.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1772.

3. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Giorgio Orelli.
(b) Spitteler.
(c) Bichsel.
(d) Madame de Stael.

4. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1907.

5. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
(a) Adam Smith.
(b) Henry Moore.
(c) Mitchell.
(d) Turgot.

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

7. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?
(a) 1789.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1774.
(d) 1791.

8. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 2,000.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 1,500.
(d) 2,500.

9. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1995.

10. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?
(a) 8 to 18.
(b) 14 to 19.
(c) 8 to 16.
(d) 9 to 17.

11. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) Around 1994.
(b) 1991.
(c) Soon after 1989.
(d) 1986.

12. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1763.
(c) 1777.
(d) 1757.

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

14. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Jews.
(c) Catholic Church.
(d) Maistre.

15. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1914.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?

2. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

3. When was Voltaire born?

4. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?

5. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

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