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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
2. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
3. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
4. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
5. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?
2. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?
3. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?
4. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?
5. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?
6. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?
7. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?
8. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?
9. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?
10. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mishra believes that a universal crisis exists in the world today. What forces does Mishra see in the world today that are more complex than those forces that caused the great wars? What unrest does he see? Why does he believe that there may be a global civil war?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Voltaire and Rousseau had differing viewpoints, especially regarding modernity. How would you describe the viewpoints of Voltaire and of Rousseau? How were their ideas about wealth and materialism different? What did their differences reveal about the meaning of modernity?
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