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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) Crises of the Republic.
(b) The Human Condition.
(c) The Life of the Mind.
(d) The Origins of Totalitarianism.

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

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

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

10. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Watchmaker.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Grocer.
(d) Blacksmith.

11. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1995.

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

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

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

15. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1745.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Post-American World written?

2. When was Rousseau born?

3. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

4. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?

5. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

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