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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1873.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1911.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1777.
(b) 1749.
(c) 1757.
(d) 1763.

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

12. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Money.
(b) Savior.
(c) Messiah.
(d) Retirement.

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

14. When was Rousseau born?
(a) 1712.
(b) 1704.
(c) 1722.
(d) 1698.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?

2. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?

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

5. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?

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