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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Syria.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Egypt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?
(a) Johann Heinrich Abicht.
(b) Joseph de Maistre.
(c) Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard.
(d) Johann Georg Hamann.

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

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

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

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

13. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1989.
(d) 1990.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?

2. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

3. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?

4. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

5. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?

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