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

2. How old was Gandhi when he died?

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

4. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?

5. When did Omar Mateen kill 49 people at a gay club in Orlando?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what does Mishra argue that ISIS owes its existence to?

2. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how did Germany defeat France in 1871?

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

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

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef?

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

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

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

9. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are different influences that cause violence. What are some difference mediums that can incite violence? How do modern influences in literature, technology and other mediums incite violence? What is revealed about various ways that violence is caused and how modernism increases violence?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra believes there is a connection between fanaticism and extremism. How are fanaticism and extremism timeless ideals? How does the intensity of fanaticism determine how destructive it becomes? What is extremism a reaction to? How is fanaticism the intensity of the response to those perceived wrongs?

Essay Topic 3

The role of religion changed before and after the Enlightenment. What was the role of religion before the Enlightenment? How did the role of religion change after the Enlightenment? What was the connection between the removal of religion from everyday life and the rise of nationalism and individualism?

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