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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Montaigne.
(d) Balfour.

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

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

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

5. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
(a) Essay on the Origin of Languages.
(b) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(c) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
(d) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.

6. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) David Low Dodge.
(b) Jon Meacham.
(c) Asa McGray.
(d) Reinhold Niebuhr.

7. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1750s.
(b) 1720s.
(c) 1730s.
(d) 1740s.

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

9. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) Ghana.
(b) South Africa.
(c) Libya.
(d) North Africa.

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

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

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

13. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Kant.
(d) Hume.

14. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1921.

15. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) North Africa.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Tunisia.
(d) Russia.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Voltaire born?

2. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?

3. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

4. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?

5. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

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