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

2. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?

3. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?

4. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?

5. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?

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 during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

3. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," in Le Mondain, what did Voltaire tell people to do?

4. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?

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

6. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?

7. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?

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

9. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?

10. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The role of religion changed before and after the Enlightenment. What was the role of religion before the Enlightenment? How did the role of religion change after the Enlightenment? What was the connection between the removal of religion from everyday life and the rise of nationalism and individualism?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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