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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 Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

2. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1948.

3. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Nehru.
(b) Mao.
(c) Ataturk.
(d) Bhutto.

4. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(b) Jon Meacham.
(c) David Low Dodge.
(d) Asa McGray.

5. When did wars in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Africa, and South America occur?
(a) 1990s.
(b) 1987.
(c) 1980s.
(d) 1993.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?

2. Who admired the way that Ataturk mobilized and regenerated resources lost by a country?

3. When was the Declaration of the Rights of Man written?

4. When did the words "perfectibilite" and civilisation" (55) make their first appearance in a European language?

5. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?

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