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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 Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1895
(b) 1892
(c) 1893.
(d) 1890.

2. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?
(a) 1743.
(b) 1683.
(c) 1698.
(d) 1719.

3. When was the word "anti-Semitism" (20) first used?
(a) 1894.
(b) 1860s.
(c) 1870s.
(d) 1863.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

2. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?

3. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?

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

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space, when did a switch to social welfarism occur?

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