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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, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1892
(b) 1893.
(c) 1895
(d) 1890.
2. What was Rousseau's ideal society?
(a) Chalcis.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Mycenaea.
(d) Eretria.
3. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) 375.
(b) About 350.
(c) Nearly 400.
(d) 415.
4. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?
(a) Plato's Dream.
(b) Le Mondain.
(c) Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations.
(d) Philosophical Letters.
5. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?
(a) Louis de Saint-Just and Marie Antoinette.
(b) Robespierre and Marat.
(c) The Jacobins and German Romantics.
(d) Louis the XVI and Napoleon.
Short Answer Questions
1. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
2. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
3. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?
4. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?
5. When was The Post-American World written?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Clearing a Space," what became the universalist creed and what was seen as a marker of progress?
2. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?
3. In "Clearing a Space," what did Timothy McVeigh write about a demagogic present in 1992?
4. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
5. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?
6. In the Prologue what are many themes of the global unrest that the author has seen?
7. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?
8. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?
9. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?
10. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?
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