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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue: Finding Reality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the American CIA and British M16 conspire to give the Shah total authority in Iran?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1951.

2. In the Prologue, what did Karl Mannheim say that people were waiting for?
(a) Retirement.
(b) Money.
(c) Savior.
(d) Messiah.

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

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

5. Who did Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?
(a) Shah of Iran.
(b) Ataturk.
(c) Auyb Khan.
(d) Ben Bella.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was McVeigh executed for his crimes?

2. Who stated that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation" (115)?

3. When did Marshall McLuhan claim that the era of literacy ended with the coming of radio and television?

4. What language was The Blind Owl written in?

5. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?

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