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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. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?
(a) Crises of the Republic.
(b) The Life of the Mind.
(c) The Human Condition.
(d) The Origins of Totalitarianism.

2. When was Germany able to defeat France by military might?
(a) 1870.
(b) 1869.
(c) 1868.
(d) 1871.

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

4. What Swiss-French writer pointed out Napoleon's seduction?
(a) Madame de Stael.
(b) Bichsel.
(c) Giorgio Orelli.
(d) Spitteler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

2. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

3. When did Francis Fukuyama believe that modernity is a freight train that cannot be derailed?

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

5. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?

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