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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 was a United Nations document published that said "rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments" (118)?

2. According to "Finding True Freedom and Equality," when was the first jihad of the modern area?

3. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?

4. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

5. When did Errico Malatesta, an Italian, join Egyptian nationalists in a revolt against British imperialists?

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," who was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef?

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

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was Herzen's plan as he wrote to his son?

6. In "Losing My Religion," what was a religious or medieval society?

7. In "Losing My Religion," what is the clash of civilizations theory?

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

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

10. In "Losing My Religion," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

The author discusses the problems of modernizing third-world countries. How does Mishra describe postcolonial nation-building? What obstacles need to be overcome? What problems are created? What are the problems of modernizing third world countries?

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