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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. Since when had the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to Polish exiles?
(a) Late-18th century.
(b) Early-18th century.
(c) 1746.
(d) 1793.

2. When did Byron speak of Italian longing or independence?
(a) 1837.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1818.

3. When did Italy sign the Triple Aliiance with German and Austria?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1884.
(d) 1883.

4. When did Omar Mateen kill 49 people at a gay club in Orlando?
(a) 2016.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2012.
(d) 2017.

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how much religious education does the author say that most of the young men involved in recent terror attacks in Europe and America have had?
(a) No religious training.
(b) A few month of religious training.
(c) Decades of religious training.
(d) A few years of religious training.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?

2. When was Gandhi shot?

3. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?

4. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?

5. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?

2. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?

3. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ahmed Darrawi and what was his philosophy?

4. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef?

6. At the end of "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," what does Mishra say about nationalism?

7. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was Herzen's plan as he wrote to his son?

8. In "Losing My Religion," what happened that left men uprooted from rural habits and led them to rage against the modern West?

9. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?

10. In "Losing My Religion," what is the clash of civilizations theory?

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