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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Santayana die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1951.

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

3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
(a) William McKinley.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) James Garfield.

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

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

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

7. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 17th century.
(c) 19th century.
(d) 16th century.

8. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1745.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1750.

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

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

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

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

13. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2005.

14. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) Ghana.
(b) Libya.
(c) South Africa.
(d) North Africa.

15. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1995.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

2. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?

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

4. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

5. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?

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