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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) 1916.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1917.

2. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Money.
(b) Savior.
(c) Retirement.
(d) Messiah.

3. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 2,000.
(d) 1,000.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

2. 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?

3. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?

4. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

5. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

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