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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. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

2. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?

3. When was the first televised beheading?

4. Who or what was Voltaire's biggest foe?

5. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

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

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

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

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

6. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?

7. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

8. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?

9. In "Clearing a Space," what has happened because of the belief systems and institutions that Britain, France, and the United States initiated and advanced?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author discusses the problems of modernizing third-world countries. How does Mishra describe postcolonial nation-building? What obstacles need to be overcome? What problems are created? What are the problems of modernizing third world countries?

Essay Topic 2

There are different influences that cause violence. What are some difference mediums that can incite violence? How do modern influences in literature, technology and other mediums incite violence? What is revealed about various ways that violence is caused and how modernism increases violence?

Essay Topic 3

Mishra believes that political revolutions have awakened the masses. How have political revolutions awakened the masses? What desires did political revolutions stir in the masses? How successful have political revolutions been in fulfilling the desires they have stirred? What have been the results of political revolutions?

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