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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 3 centuries.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 50 years.

2. When was Voltaire born?
(a) 1688.
(b) 1679.
(c) 1694.
(d) 1668.

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

4. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

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

6. As stated in "Clearing a Space, when did a switch to social welfarism occur?
(a) 1948.
(b) In the 1950s.
(c) After 1945.
(d) 1953.

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

8. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1748.
(d) 1721.

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

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

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

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

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

14. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1892
(c) 1895
(d) 1893.

15. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Messiah.
(b) Money.
(c) Savior.
(d) Retirement.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

2. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?

3. When did Diderot write Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville?

4. What was Rousseau's ideal society?

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

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