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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 Voltaire die?
(a) 1778.
(b) 1753.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1769.

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

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

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

5. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the first televised beheading?

2. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

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

4. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

5. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

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

6. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?

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

8. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?

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

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

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