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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?
(a) 9 to 17.
(b) 8 to 18.
(c) 8 to 16.
(d) 14 to 19.

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

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

4. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?
(a) Maistre.
(b) Catholic Church.
(c) Jews.
(d) Rousseau.

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

6. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?
(a) 1922.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1920.

7. 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) 50 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 3 centuries.

8. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) Jon Meacham.
(b) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(c) David Low Dodge.
(d) Asa McGray.

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

10. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) 115.
(b) About 150.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) 89.

11. 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)?
(a) 120 years.
(b) 70 years.
(c) More than a century.
(d) About 90 years.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?

3. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?

4. When was the first televised beheading?

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

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