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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since when had the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to Polish exiles?
(a) Late-18th century.
(b) 1746.
(c) 1793.
(d) Early-18th century.

2. When did Vladimir Putin announce that Russia and Russians would strive to be leaders?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2014.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2011.

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

4. When did revolution break out across Europe?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1839.
(d) 1821.

5. When was the attack against Brussels that was written about in Charlie Hebdo?
(a) March 2016.
(b) April 2016.
(c) November 2016.
(d) January 2016.

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

7. When in the 19th century did French troops occupy Berlin?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1819.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1839.

8. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1909.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1902.

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

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

11. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Andreev.
(c) Dmitriev.
(d) Barkov.

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

13. How old was Herder when he went to be a pastor in Riga?
(a) 40s.
(b) 20s.
(c) 50s.
(d) 30s.

14. Where was Adam Mickiewicz born?
(a) Lithuania.
(b) Poland.
(c) Albania.
(d) Switzerland.

15. When did James Macpherson publish ancient Gaelic poetry he said he discovered in Scotland?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1794.
(c) 1773.
(d) 1761.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a United Nations document published that said "rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments" (118)?

2. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

3. What religion does Mishra say is taking over India?

4. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?

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

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