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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 referendum on Brexit held?

2. How long had Bakunin been dead when Alexander II was assassinated?

3. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?

4. When did al-Suri drop out of university to join a radical group?

5. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?

2. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did Bakunin view the future?

3. In "Losing My Religion," what was a religious or medieval society?

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

5. In "Losing My Religion," what is the clash of civilizations theory?

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

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

8. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ahmed Darrawi and what was his philosophy?

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 "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how was Ghandi killed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra shares his upbringing and education. Why does Mishra share information about his upbringing and education? What does he reveal about prejudice and bias by sharing this information?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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