3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 17th century.
(d) 19th century.

4. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Grocer.
(b) Watchmaker.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Farmer.

5. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2010.
(c) 2008.
(d) 2009.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

2. When did Rousseau arrive in Paris?

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?

4. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?

4. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?

5. In "Clearing a Space," what has happened because of the belief systems and institutions that Britain, France, and the United States initiated and advanced?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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