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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) 415.
(b) Nearly 400.
(c) 375.
(d) About 350.

2. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1990s.
(d) 1993.

3. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?
(a) United States, Egpyt, and Liberia.
(b) Monaco, South Africa, and Portugal.
(c) Ireland, India, and Egypt.
(d) France, Germany, and Sweden.

4. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
(a) Nearly 200.
(b) 175.
(c) About 150.
(d) 235.

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

6. When did D'Annunzio die?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1939.

7. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

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

9. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 19th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 18th century.

10. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1904.

11. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Ship's captain.

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

13. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Otranto.
(b) Fiume.
(c) Barletta.
(d) Trieste.

14. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Blue.
(b) Khaki.
(c) Black.
(d) Green.

15. When did Voltaire die?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1753.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?

2. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?

3. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?

4. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?

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

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