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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 McVeigh participate in exercises against Saddam Hussein's troops?
2. When did Dostoyevsky attend a conference of exiled radicals in Geneva?
3. When in the 19th century did French troops occupy Berlin?
4. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how much religious education does the author say that most of the young men involved in recent terror attacks in Europe and America have had?
5. When did Napoleon die?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was the first large-scale attack by a "domestic" (275) terrorist in the United States?
2. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was Herzen's plan as he wrote to his son?
3. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?
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 "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?
6. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?
7. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what groups in the "recent past" (290) have used terrorist violence as a tactic?
8. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?
9. In "Losing My Religion," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?
10. In "Losing My Religion," what is the clash of civilizations theory?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 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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