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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What religion does Mishra say is taking over India?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Janism.
(c) Sikhism.
(d) Hinduism.

4. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

5. How many states were in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation?
(a) 325.
(b) 350.
(c) 275.
(d) 300.

6. When did Italy sign the Triple Aliiance with German and Austria?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1883.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1882.

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

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

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

10. When did Herder travel from France to Riga?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1766.
(d) 1769.

11. How old was Gandhi when he died?
(a) 81.
(b) 86.
(c) 74.
(d) 78.

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

13. As stated in "Losing My Religion," how long did the postcolonial world have to create the political and economic developments that took more than a century to develop in Europe and America?
(a) 2 or 3 decades.
(b) 60 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 4 or 5 decades.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to "Finding True Freedom and Equality," when was the first jihad of the modern area?

3. When was the referendum on Brexit held?

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

5. When did McVeigh participate in exercises against Saddam Hussein's troops?

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