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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. When did Dostoyevsky attend a conference of exiled radicals in Geneva?
3. Where was Adam Mickiewicz born?
4. How old was Gandhi when he died?
5. As stated in "Losing My Religion," how long did the postcolonial world have to create the political and economic developments that took more than a century to develop in Europe and America?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?
2. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?
3. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?
4. At the end of "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," what does Mishra say about nationalism?
5. In "Losing My Religion," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?
6. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?
7. In "Losing My Religion," how was Iran transformed and what were the effects of the transformation?
8. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?
9. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ahmed Darrawi and what was his philosophy?
10. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Voltaire and Rousseau had differing viewpoints, especially regarding modernity. How would you describe the viewpoints of Voltaire and of Rousseau? How were their ideas about wealth and materialism different? What did their differences reveal about the meaning of modernity?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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