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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. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Montaigne.
(c) Bacon.
(d) Balfour.

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

3. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1822
(c) 1800.
(d) 1814.

4. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
(a) Mitchell.
(b) Henry Moore.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Adam Smith.

5. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?
(a) Boulanger.
(b) Kant.
(c) Abicht.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

3. When did Voltaire die?

4. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

5. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

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

3. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?

4. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?

5. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?

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

7. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?

8. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?

9. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?

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

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