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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?
(a) 1756.
(b) 1739.
(c) 1721.
(d) 1748.

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

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

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

5. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Abicht.
(c) Boulanger.
(d) Kant.

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

7. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
(a) 1683.
(b) 1719.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1698.

8. When was The Adventures of Telemachus published?
(a) 1686.
(b) 1699.
(c) 1704.
(d) 1701.

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

10. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,000.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 2,500.

11. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?
(a) 330.
(b) Thousands.
(c) 580.
(d) Hundreds.

12. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Barletta.
(b) Otranto.
(c) Trieste.
(d) Fiume.

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

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

15. What did Voltaire call Rousseau?
(a) A traitor.
(b) An idiot.
(c) A tramp.
(d) A demogogue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

2. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?

3. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?

4. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

5. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

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