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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Clearing a Space: History's Winners and Their Illusions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1918.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1916.

2. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Madame de Stael.
(b) Giorgio Orelli.
(c) Bichsel.
(d) Spitteler.

3. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1837.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1840.

4. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) The Life of the Mind.
(b) The Human Condition.
(c) The Origins of Totalitarianism.
(d) Crises of the Republic.

5. When did D'Annunzio die?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

3. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

4. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

5. When was the first televised beheading?

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