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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. How many people died when Timothy McVeigh bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City?
(a) 183.
(b) 168.
(c) 171.
(d) 159.

2. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?
(a) Adolf Friedrich von Reinhard.
(b) Joseph de Maistre.
(c) Johann Heinrich Abicht.
(d) Johann Georg Hamann.

3. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 19th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 17th century.

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

5. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?
(a) Libya.
(b) Ghana.
(c) South Africa.
(d) North Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Rousseau's ideal society?

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

3. When did the movement the People's Will assassinate Alexander II?

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

5. How much did the suit cost that an Indian Hindu revivalist prime minister wore?

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