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

2. When did Samuel Huntington write Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2004.
(d) 2001.

3. How old was Rousseau when his mother died?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 11.

4. When was a United Nations document published that said "rapid economic progress is impossible without painful adjustments" (118)?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1978.

5. Who stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?
(a) Mickiewicz.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) McEwan.
(d) Dickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

2. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

3. When did Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?

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

5. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?

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