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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was The Post-American World written?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2010.

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

3. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?
(a) Watchmaker.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Blacksmith.
(d) Grocer.

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

5. How many people were massacred at a rock concert, bars, and restaurants in Paris in 2015?
(a) 115.
(b) About 150.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) 89.

6. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

7. What assassinated American president did the narrator say was murdered by anarchists and nihilists?
(a) John F. Kennedy.
(b) William McKinley.
(c) Abraham Lincoln.
(d) James Garfield.

8. When did Montesquieu writing The Spirt of the Laws?
(a) 1739.
(b) 1756.
(c) 1748.
(d) 1721.

9. In the Prologue, when did Gabriele D'Annunzio support Italy's invasion of Libya?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1910.

10. From where did a company that Voltaire joined imported grain from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Tunisia.
(c) North Africa.
(d) Turkey.

11. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?
(a) Smith.
(b) Dreyfus.
(c) Camus.
(d) Rousseau.

12. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?
(a) Reveries of a Solitary Walker.
(b) Constitutional Project for Corsica.
(c) Narcissus, or The Self-Admirer: A Comedy.
(d) Essay on the Origin of Languages.

13. Who were Rosseau's most famous disciples?
(a) Louis de Saint-Just and Marie Antoinette.
(b) Robespierre and Marat.
(c) Louis the XVI and Napoleon.
(d) The Jacobins and German Romantics.

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

15. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?
(a) Kant.
(b) Diderot.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Hume.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?

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

3. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?

4. What American theologian mocked fanatics of Western civilization?

5. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?

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