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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 did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2001.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2003.

2. Where does "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Undound" describe a Louis Vuitton store being opened?
(a) South Africa.
(b) India.
(c) Philippines.
(d) Borneo.

3. When did Herder travel from France to Riga?
(a) 1768.
(b) 1767.
(c) 1766.
(d) 1769.

4. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1951.

5. When in the 19th century did French troops occupy Berlin?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1819.
(d) 1807.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?

2. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?

3. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?

4. How old was Herder when he went to be a pastor in Riga?

5. As stated in "Finding True Freedom and Equlity," when did foreign radicals make up a large number of the radical Communards in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Losing My Religion," what did Stifter say in his novel Indian Summer about the things that occurred when modernity encroached on an area?

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

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

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

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

8. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how was Ghandi killed?

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

10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?

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