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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 was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?

2. When in the 19th century did French troops occupy Berlin?

3. When did Gandhi write his first eulogy to Mazzini?

4. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?

5. When was the attack against Brussels that was written about in Charlie Hebdo?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?

2. At the end of "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," what does Mishra say about nationalism?

3. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?

4. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?

5. In "Losing My Religion," how was Iran transformed and what were the effects of the transformation?

6. In "Losing My Religion," what happened that left men uprooted from rural habits and led them to rage against the modern West?

7. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?

8. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was Herzen's plan as he wrote to his son?

9. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was the first large-scale attack by a "domestic" (275) terrorist in the United States?

10. In "Losing My Religion," what did Stifter say in his novel Indian Summer about the things that occurred when modernity encroached on an area?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra discusses free-market capitalism and economic life. When was free-market capitalism touted as the only way to organize economic life? What problems have arisen from the free-market capitalism economic system? What does the author communicate about free-market capitalism as a way to organize global economic life?

Essay Topic 3

The tragedy of 9/11 made people wonder how individuals could be opposed to modernity. What does Mishra have to say about Islam versus the West? How did 9/11 increase the conflict? What is thought about people who oppose modernity? How has modernity not taken root in traditional and backward Muslim countries? How has this caused a clash between Islam and the West? What is revealed about opposition to modernity through this clash?

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