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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

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

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

6. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?
(a) 1736.
(b) 1711.
(c) 1729.
(d) 1743.

7. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1918.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?

2. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?

3. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?

4. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?

5. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

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