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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. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Trieste.
(b) Fiume.
(c) Barletta.
(d) Otranto.

2. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) Soon after 1989.
(b) Around 1994.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

3. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Eretria.
(c) Mycenaea.
(d) Chalcis.

4. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?
(a) Kant.
(b) Abicht.
(c) Boulanger.
(d) Rousseau.

5. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1736.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?

2. When was The Post-American World written?

3. When was The Adventures of Telemachus published?

4. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?

5. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?

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

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 ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

7. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," in Le Mondain, what did Voltaire tell people to do?

8. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?

9. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?

10. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?

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