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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 Ahmed Darrawi disappear and then resurface months later?

2. How old was Gandhi when he died?

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

4. When was McVeigh executed for his crimes?

5. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?

4. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Global capitalism sets up expectations of what life will be like, especially for the downtrodden. What do people expect when capitalism is implemented? What mismatch is there between expectations and reality? Why are people disappointed at the results of capitalism? How does this create tendencies for violence? What is revealed about the results of global capitalism because of the mismatch between what people expect from life and the speed in which life changes?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra believes that political revolutions have awakened the masses. How have political revolutions awakened the masses? What desires did political revolutions stir in the masses? How successful have political revolutions been in fulfilling the desires they have stirred? What have been the results of political revolutions?

Essay Topic 3

Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist. What was the goal of Hindu nationalists? How did Ghandi oppose those goals? What is revealed about nationalism in India through Ghandi’s assassination?

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