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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Losing My Religion: Islam, Secularism and Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1736.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1759.

2. How much did the suit cost that an Indian Hindu revivalist prime minister wore?
(a) $15,000.
(b) $7,500.
(c) $8,500.
(d) $21,000.

3. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2006.

4. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?
(a) Henry Moore.
(b) Mitchell.
(c) Turgot.
(d) Adam Smith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said that the rich had a duty to never "make people conscious of inequalities of wealth" (83)?

2. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

3. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

4. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?

5. When was the attack against Brussels that was written about in Charlie Hebdo?

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