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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. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?
(a) David Low Dodge.
(b) Reinhold Niebuhr.
(c) Jon Meacham.
(d) Asa McGray.

2. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1892
(b) 1893.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1895

3. When was the first televised beheading?
(a) 2004.
(b) 2007.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2006.

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

5. At stated in "Clearing a Space," when did the Soviet Union implode?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?

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

4. When was the tract Le Philosophe, which was reissued by Voltaire, originally issued?

5. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

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