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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?
(a) Baader-Meinhof.
(b) Emile Henry.
(c) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.
(d) Theodor Herzl.

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

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

7. When did McVeigh participate in exercises against Saddam Hussein's troops?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

8. 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) 60 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 4 or 5 decades.
(d) 2 or 3 decades.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did al-Suri drop out of university to join a radical group?

2. How many lives were said to have been lost in building Western city on the banks of the Neva?

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

4. Where did Ataturk defeat Allied forces?

5. How long had Bakunin been dead when Alexander II was assassinated?

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