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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Finding True Freedom and Equality: The Heritage of Nihilism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1732.
(b) 1750.
(c) 1761.
(d) 1745.

2. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?
(a) 1750s.
(b) 1720s.
(c) 1730s.
(d) 1740s.

3. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?
(a) 1869.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1871.
(d) 1868.

4. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1910.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1913.

5. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?
(a) 1850.
(b) 1851.
(c) 1849.
(d) 1848.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did McVeigh participate in exercises against Saddam Hussein's troops?

2. When was Abu Musab al-Suri born?

3. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?

4. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?

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

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