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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 did Diderot write Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville?
(a) 1769.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1772.
(d) 1751.
2. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Retirement.
(b) Savior.
(c) Messiah.
(d) Money.
3. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?
(a) 10.
(b) 8.
(c) 11.
(d) 6.
4. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1868.
5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) 18th century.
(d) 16th century.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was Voltaire born?
2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," when did democracy come into vogue?
3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
4. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
5. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?
2. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?
3. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?
4. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?
5. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?
6. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
7. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?
8. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?
9. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?
10. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?
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