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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When did Santayana die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1953.

3. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1905.

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

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?
(a) Disregard for history.
(b) Loss of interest in history.
(c) Sanitized history.
(d) History for the masses.

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

7. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

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

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

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

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

12. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1840.
(c) 1837.
(d) 1836.

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

14. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 200 years.
(b) 75 years.
(c) 50 years.
(d) 3 centuries.

15. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Chalcis.
(c) Eretria.
(d) Mycenaea.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?

2. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

3. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?

4. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

5. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?

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