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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?
(a) Plato's Dream.
(b) Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations.
(c) Le Mondain.
(d) Philosophical Letters.

3. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1910.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1912.

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

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

6. 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) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

7. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1989.

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

9. When did Voltaire die?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1769.
(d) 1778.

10. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
(a) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.
(b) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(c) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
(d) Essay on the Origin of Languages.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?

3. When was The Adventures of Telemachus published?

4. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?

5. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

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