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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. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?
(a) Barletta.
(b) Trieste.
(c) Otranto.
(d) Fiume.

2. In what publication did Voltaire praise the globetrotting merchant?
(a) Philosophical Letters.
(b) Essay on the Customs and the Spirit of the Nations.
(c) Le Mondain.
(d) Plato's Dream.

3. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Ataturk.
(b) Bhutto.
(c) Mao.
(d) Nehru.

4. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) United States.
(d) Russia.

5. How many Iraqis were killed in 1990?
(a) More 100,000.
(b) About 90,000.
(c) 85,000.
(d) 110,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?

2. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?

3. When was Germany able to defeat France with the help of railways and telegraph networks?

4. Where does "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Undound" describe a Louis Vuitton store being opened?

5. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?

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