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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 last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
(a) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(b) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
(c) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.
(d) Essay on the Origin of Languages.

2. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?
(a) Monaco, South Africa, and Portugal.
(b) Ireland, India, and Egypt.
(c) United States, Egpyt, and Liberia.
(d) France, Germany, and Sweden.

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

4. When did D'Annunzio's occupation end?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?

2. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

3. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?

4. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

5. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 did Adam Smith envision?

4. In the Prologue, what did Mikhail Bakunin say about the revolutionist?

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

6. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

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

8. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?

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

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

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