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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 were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?
(a) Soon after 1989.
(b) Around 1994.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1991.

2. When did Asia and Africa begin large-scale emulation of Western ideas?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1970s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1950s.

3. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Ship's captain.
(d) Tax collector.

4. How long had Bakunin been dead when Alexander II was assassinated?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 18 months.
(d) 5 years.

5. When did al-Suri drop out of university to join a radical group?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1980.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Dostoyevsky attend a conference of exiled radicals in Geneva?

2. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?

3. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?

4. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

5. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

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