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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 stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?

2. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?

3. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?

4. How many lives were said to have been lost in building Western city on the banks of the Neva?

5. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The word “philosophes” was a French word for philosopher. How did philosophes view themselves and their abilities? How did their role change in the time period before and after Voltaire? What was the role of the philosophe in society?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Mishra believes that modernization in non-Western countries causes an identity crisis. What does Mishra say about an identity crisis arising from attempts to modernize in non-Western countries? What examples does he provide? What is exposed about identity crises and modernity?

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