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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1984.

2. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2003.

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

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

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

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

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

8. When did Napoleon die?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1820.

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

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

11. Who became the biggest consumers of French wines?
(a) Vietnamese.
(b) Italians.
(c) Germans.
(d) Chinese.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?

2. At stated in "Losing My Religion," by when did civilization become synonymous with progress through the "triumph of the will" (132)?

3. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

4. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

5. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?

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