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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ahmed Darrawi disappear and then resurface months later?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2013.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2012.

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

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

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

5. What language was The Blind Owl written in?
(a) French.
(b) Persian.
(c) Egyptian.
(d) Turkish.

6. When was Nirad C. Chaudhuri an influential commentator on India?
(a) 1960s and 1970s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1950s and 1960s.

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

8. As stated in "Finding True Freedom and Equlity," when did foreign radicals make up a large number of the radical Communards in Paris?
(a) 1873.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1871.

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

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

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

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

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

14. Who stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?
(a) Mickiewicz.
(b) McEwan.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Thoreau.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?

2. Where was Adam Mickiewicz born?

3. When did Omar Mateen kill 49 people at a gay club in Orlando?

4. How many Iraqis did McVeigh kill in cold blood during his time in the military?

5. Where did Dylann Roof killed nine people in 2015?

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