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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. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Grocer.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Watchmaker.
(d) Farmer.
2. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?
(a) Rousseau.
(b) Abicht.
(c) Boulanger.
(d) Kant.
3. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1749.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1757.
4. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Mycenaea.
(b) Chalcis.
(c) Eretria.
(d) Sparta.
5. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?
(a) 1721.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1748.
(d) 1739.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?
2. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
3. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?
4. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
5. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
Short Essay Questions
1. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?
2. In "Clearing a Space," what has happened because of the belief systems and institutions that Britain, France, and the United States initiated and advanced?
3. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
4. In "Clearing a Space," what did Timothy McVeigh write about a demagogic present in 1992?
5. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?
6. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?
7. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?
8. In the Prologue, who was Gabriele D'Annunzio, and what was he know for?
9. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?
10. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?
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