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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. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Dreyfus.
(b) Camus.
(c) Smith.
(d) Rousseau.

2. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1910.

3. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Green.
(b) Khaki.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.

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

5. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) 375.
(b) Nearly 400.
(c) About 350.
(d) 415.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?

3. When did D'Annunzio die?

4. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

5. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the Prologue, who was Gabriele D'Annunzio, and what was he know for?

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

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

6. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?

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

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

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

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

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