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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 Adam Mickiewicz arrive in Istanbul?

2. When was Nirad C. Chaudhuri an influential commentator on India?

3. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

4. When did revolution break out across Europe?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In "Losing My Religion," what did Stifter say in his novel Indian Summer about the things that occurred when modernity encroached on an area?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 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?

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