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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) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.
(b) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(c) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
(d) Essay on the Origin of Languages.

2. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?
(a) 1868.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1870.
(d) 1871.

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

4. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Spitteler.
(b) Madame de Stael.
(c) Giorgio Orelli.
(d) Bichsel.

5. When was Voltaire born?
(a) 1694.
(b) 1668.
(c) 1679.
(d) 1688.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Voltaire die?

2. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?

3. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

4. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?

5. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?

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

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

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

6. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?

7. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?

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

9. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

10. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?

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