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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) Ghana.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Libya.
(d) South Africa.

2. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1921.

3. When was Rousseau born?
(a) 1704.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1722.
(d) 1712.

4. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Ship's captain.
(c) Tax collector.
(d) Merchant.

5. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1914.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?

2. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

4. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?

5. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's view of religion?

2. In "Clearing a Space," what became the universalist creed and what was seen as a marker of progress?

3. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?

4. In "Clearing a Space," what did Timothy McVeigh write about a demagogic present in 1992?

5. In the Prologue what are many themes of the global unrest that the author has seen?

6. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

7. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?

8. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?

9. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?

10. In "Clearing a Space," who did Reinhold Niebuhr mock?

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