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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

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

4. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Madame de Stael.
(b) Bichsel.
(c) Giorgio Orelli.
(d) Spitteler.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?
(a) Johann Heinrich Abicht.
(b) Johann Georg Hamann.
(c) Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard.
(d) Joseph de Maistre.

11. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?
(a) About 1820.
(b) 1833.
(c) Around 1830.
(d) 1829.

12. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2011.

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

14. 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) 70 years.
(b) 120 years.
(c) About 90 years.
(d) More than a century.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rousseau arrive in Paris?

2. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

3. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?

4. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?

5. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?

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