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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 an Iranian novelist write Westoxification?

2. When did Prussia, along with Russia, Saxony, Saxony-Weimar, Brunswick and Hanover, declare war on France?

3. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?

4. Where does "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Undound" describe a Louis Vuitton store being opened?

5. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how was Ghandi killed?

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

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

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

8. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?

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

10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was the first large-scale attack by a "domestic" (275) terrorist in the United States?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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