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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did Ataturk defeat Allied forces?
(a) Iran.
(b) Iraq.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Egypt.

4. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1954.

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

6. When did Georg Forster died?
(a) 1764.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1772.

7. When did al-Suri drop out of university to join a radical group?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1978.

8. When was a United Nations document published that said "rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments" (118)?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1978.

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

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

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

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

13. When did Suzanne Voilquin travel to Egypt with her message of female empowerment?
(a) 1850s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1820s.
(d) 1830s.

14. When did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1997.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?

2. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?

3. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?

4. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?

5. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

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