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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 was Germany able to defeat France with the help of railways and telegraph networks?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1870.

2. In 1886, how many strikers were shot outside the McCormic Reaper Works?
(a) 24.
(b) 3.
(c) 11.
(d) 6.

3. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1986.

4. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?
(a) Ben Bella.
(b) Ataturk.
(c) Shah of Iran.
(d) Auyb Khan.

5. How many Iraqis did McVeigh kill in cold blood during his time in the military?
(a) 4.
(b) 9.
(c) 2.
(d) 11.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Adam Mickiewicz born?

2. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?

3. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

4. When did an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

5. When did Byron speak of Italian longing or independence?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?

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

3. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how did Germany defeat France in 1871?

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

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?

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

7. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what does Mishra argue that ISIS owes its existence to?

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

9. In "Losing My Religion," how was Iran transformed and what were the effects of the transformation?

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

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