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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 (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?
(a) Tens of thousands.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Hundreds of thousands.
(d) Hundreds.

2. When did Voltaire become court philosopher to Frederick of Prussia?
(a) 1745.
(b) 1761.
(c) 1732.
(d) 1750.

3. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1986.

4. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?
(a) 1757.
(b) 1777.
(c) 1763.
(d) 1749.

5. When was the referendum on Brexit held?
(a) April 2014.
(b) May 2015.
(c) June 2016.
(d) July 2017.

Short Answer Questions

1. As stated in the Prologue, how many European young men went to South America to fight for poorly understood causes?

2. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?

3. When was McVeigh executed for his crimes?

4. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?

5. When did Errico Malatesta, an Italian, join Egyptian nationalists in a revolt against British imperialists?

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