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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. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 5 million.
(c) 14 million.
(d) 2 million.

2. When did Georg Forster died?
(a) 1772.
(b) 1764.
(c) 1781.
(d) 1794.

3. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Ataturk.
(b) Bhutto.
(c) Mao.
(d) Nehru.

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

5. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?
(a) 1760s.
(b) 1770s.
(c) 1790s.
(d) 1780s.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1886, how many strikers were shot outside the McCormic Reaper Works?

2. When did Adam Mickiewicz arrive in Istanbul?

3. Who became the biggest consumers of French wines?

4. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?

5. When did Timothy McVeigh write that the "American Dream" (278) has all but disappeared?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," who was Adam Mickiewicz?

2. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what groups in the "recent past" (290) have used terrorist violence as a tactic?

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

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

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

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

7. In "Losing My Religion," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?

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

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

10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was the first large-scale attack by a "domestic" (275) terrorist in the United States?

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