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

2. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?

3. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," who was Adam Mickiewicz?

6. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what groups in the "recent past" (290) have used terrorist violence as a tactic?

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

8. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Mishra discusses the poem Le Mondain written by Voltaire. What was Le Mondain an ode to? What ideals about wealth were followed in the Middle Ages? How did Voltaire dismiss the Christian past? What did he promote instead? What changes did he propose in Western culture? In what way did Voltaire usher in a moral revolution through Le Mondain?

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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