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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. When was Voltaire born?
(a) 1688.
(b) 1668.
(c) 1694.
(d) 1679.
2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?
(a) 1833.
(b) Around 1830.
(c) 1829.
(d) About 1820.
3. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Turkey.
4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1740s.
(b) 1720s.
(c) 1730s.
(d) 1750s.
5. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?
(a) After the Russian incursion in Ukraine.
(b) 2004.
(c) 2012.
(d) Shortly after 9/11.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
2. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
3. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?
4. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?
5. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?
Short Essay Questions
1. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?
2. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?
3. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?
4. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?
5. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?
6. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?
7. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?
8. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
9. In "Clearing a Space," who did Reinhold Niebuhr mock?
10. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?
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