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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. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?

2. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?

3. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?

4. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?

5. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?

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

3. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?

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

5. In "Clearing a Space," what was the belief regarding historical inevitability in Europe in the 19th century?

6. In "Clearing a Space," what became the universalist creed and what was seen as a marker of progress?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra began considering writing Age of Anger in 2014. What happened in 2014? What other events were influences for him? What does he try to make sense of in the book? What does he reveal about crises and history? Why did Mishra write the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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