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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Loving Oneself Through Others: Progress and Its Contradictions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?
(a) 1711.
(b) 1729.
(c) 1743.
(d) 1736.

2. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1996.

3. According to the Prologue, how long before the word "jihad" entered the common language did German and Italian nationalists call for a "holy war" (11)?
(a) 120 years.
(b) 70 years.
(c) More than a century.
(d) About 90 years.

4. When did Voltaire die?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1778.
(c) 1753.
(d) 1769.

5. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?
(a) German.
(b) English.
(c) Spanish.
(d) French.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who envisioned an open global system of trade powered by envy and admiration of the wealthy?

2. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?

3. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?

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

5. What was Voltaire's father's occupation?

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