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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Errico Malatesta, an Italian, join Egyptian nationalists in a revolt against British imperialists?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1881.

2. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?
(a) Russia.
(b) Germany.
(c) France.
(d) United States.

3. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Bhutto.
(b) Ataturk.
(c) Mao.
(d) Nehru.

4. When was McVeigh executed for his crimes?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2002.

5. When did Byron speak of Italian longing or independence?
(a) 1805.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1818.

6. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?
(a) 5 million.
(b) 14 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 2 million.

7. When was Germany able to defeat France with the help of railways and telegraph networks?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1872.

8. When did Emile Henry bomb a cafe in Paris?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1894.
(c) 1990.
(d) 2003.

9. How long had Bakunin been dead when Alexander II was assassinated?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 11 months.

10. When did the movement the People's Will assassinate Alexander II?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1882.

11. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?
(a) 168.
(b) 171.
(c) 159.
(d) 183.

12. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?
(a) Shah of Iran.
(b) Auyb Khan.
(c) Ben Bella.
(d) Ataturk.

13. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1998.

14. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how much religious education does the author say that most of the young men involved in recent terror attacks in Europe and America have had?
(a) Decades of religious training.
(b) A few years of religious training.
(c) No religious training.
(d) A few month of religious training.

15. When was Gandhi shot?
(a) January 1948.
(b) February 1948
(c) December 1947.
(d) November 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did James Macpherson publish ancient Gaelic poetry he said he discovered in Scotland?

2. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?

3. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?

4. When did King Umberto I of Italy survive an attempt on his life made by an anarchist?

5. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?

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