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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?
(a) Ship's captain.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Lawyer.
(d) Tax collector.

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

5. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1980s.

6. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Dreyfus.
(b) Rousseau.
(c) Smith.
(d) Camus.

7. When did Rousseau arrive in Paris?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1738.
(c) Mid-1740s.
(d) Early 1730s.

8. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
(a) Nearly 200.
(b) 175.
(c) 235.
(d) About 150.

9. 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) 50 years.
(c) 3 centuries.
(d) 75 years.

10. 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.

11. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) 1991.
(b) Around 1994.
(c) Soon after 1989.
(d) 1986.

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

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

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

15. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?
(a) 10.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?

2. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?

3. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?

4. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

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

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