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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the referendum on Brexit held?
(a) June 2016.
(b) April 2014.
(c) May 2015.
(d) July 2017.

3. When did Adam Mickiewicz arrive in Istanbul?
(a) 1855.
(b) 1857.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1854.

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

5. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?
(a) Madero.
(b) Zapata.
(c) Diaz.
(d) Huerta.

6. When did Italy sign the Triple Aliiance with German and Austria?
(a) 1883.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1881.
(d) 1884.

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

8. When did Timothy McVeigh write that the "American Dream" (278) has all but disappeared?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1992.

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

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

11. When did King Umberto I of Italy survive an attempt on his life made by an anarchist?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1878.
(d) 1881.

12. 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) A few years of religious training.
(b) No religious training.
(c) A few month of religious training.
(d) Decades of religious training.

13. How many states were in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation?
(a) 325.
(b) 275.
(c) 350.
(d) 300.

14. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?
(a) Tens of thousands.
(b) Hundreds.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Hundreds of thousands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?

2. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

3. When did Dostoyevsky attend a conference of exiled radicals in Geneva?

4. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?

5. Since when had the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to Polish exiles?

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