View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?

2. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?

3. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?

5. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?

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

5. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

6. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?

7. In the Prologue what are many themes of the global unrest that the author has seen?

8. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra believes that modernization in non-Western countries causes an identity crisis. What does Mishra say about an identity crisis arising from attempts to modernize in non-Western countries? What examples does he provide? What is exposed about identity crises and modernity?

Essay Topic 2

Germans were some of the first to embrace nationalism. Why did German thinkers and artist reject French civilization? What did they embrace instead? What is revealed about nationalism through German nationalists?

Essay Topic 3

The author reveals negative effects of materialism and consumerism. How does the author think that the Atlantic West’s ideas and economic and social structures have impacted the world? What have materialism and consumerism replaced in cultures? What does Mishra reveal about the negative effects of materialism and consumerism?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 821 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample