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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Voltaire born?
(a) 1688.
(b) 1668.
(c) 1679.
(d) 1694.

2. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1995.

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

4. When did Rousseau arrive in Paris?
(a) Early 1730s.
(b) 1738.
(c) 1745.
(d) Mid-1740s.

5. As stated in "Clearing a Space," until when did a "revealed religion" dominate Europe?
(a) 17th century.
(b) 18th century.
(c) 16th century.
(d) 19th century.

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

7. In the Prologue, how many Italian mutineers helped an Italian poet occupy a town?
(a) 1,500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 2,500.
(d) 2,000.

8. When did Santayana die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1951.

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

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

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

12. When did Marx and Engels write The Communist Manifesto?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1848.
(d) 1873.

13. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1895
(c) 1890.
(d) 1892

14. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1840.
(d) 1837.

15. 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) About 90 years.
(b) More than a century.
(c) 70 years.
(d) 120 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

2. In the Prologue, what town did an Italian poet occupy with Italian mutineers?

3. When did George Santayana leave the United States for Europe?

4. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?

5. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?

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