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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) 1721.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1748.
(d) 1739.

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

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?
(a) History for the masses.
(b) Disregard for history.
(c) Loss of interest in history.
(d) Sanitized history.

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

5. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Black.
(b) Green.
(c) Khaki.
(d) Blue.

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

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

8. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1814.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1822

9. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1917.

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

11. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?
(a) 1759.
(b) 1742.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1736.

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

13. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?
(a) 1729.
(b) 1736.
(c) 1711.
(d) 1743.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

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

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

4. When was the first televised beheading?

5. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

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