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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. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) Nearly 400.
(b) 375.
(c) 415.
(d) About 350.
2. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) North Africa.
(c) Russia.
(d) Turkey.
3. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1750s.
(b) 1720s.
(c) 1730s.
(d) 1740s.
4. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?
(a) About 90 years.
(b) 120 years.
(c) 70 years.
(d) More than a century.
5. At what age did ISIS stipulate that Muslim girls marry and live in total seclusion?
(a) 9 to 17.
(b) 8 to 16.
(c) 8 to 18.
(d) 14 to 19.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
2. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
3. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?
4. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
5. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?
2. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?
3. In the Prologue, who was Gabriele D'Annunzio, and what was he know for?
4. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?
5. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?
6. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's view of religion?
7. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?
8. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?
9. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?
10. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
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