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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many Iraqis were killed in 1990?
(a) 110,000.
(b) About 90,000.
(c) More 100,000.
(d) 85,000.

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

3. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1949.

4. At stated in "Losing My Religion," by when did civilization become synonymous with progress through the "triumph of the will" (132)?
(a) Late-18th century.
(b) Early-20th century.
(c) Late-19th century.
(d) Early-19th century.

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

6. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1851.

7. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1897.
(d) 1898.

8. What was the first country where autocrats tried modernity?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Iran.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Russia.

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

10. How much did the suit cost that an Indian Hindu revivalist prime minister wore?
(a) $21,000.
(b) $8,500.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $7,500.

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

12. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Churchill.
(d) Mussolini.

13. According to "Finding True Freedom and Equality," when was the first jihad of the modern area?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1811.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1813.

14. When did Omar Mateen kill 49 people at a gay club in Orlando?
(a) 2017.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2016.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who became the biggest consumers of French wines?

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

4. When did Emile Henry bomb a cafe in Paris?

5. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?

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