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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 did Voltaire call Rousseau?
(a) A traitor.
(b) A demogogue.
(c) An idiot.
(d) A tramp.
2. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1822
(b) 1800.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1814.
3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," what was the result of cutting the tie between a consciousness of the past to the present?
(a) History for the masses.
(b) Disregard for history.
(c) Sanitized history.
(d) Loss of interest in history.
4. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Watchmaker.
(b) Blacksmith.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Grocer.
5. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 200 years.
(c) 3 centuries.
(d) 50 years.
Short Answer Questions
1. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
2. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
3. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
4. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?
5. When was the first televised beheading?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," in Le Mondain, what did Voltaire tell people to do?
2. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?
3. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
4. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?
5. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?
6. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?
7. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?
8. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?
9. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?
10. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?
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