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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As stated in "Clearing a Space, when did a switch to social welfarism occur?
(a) After 1945.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1953.
(d) In the 1950s.

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

3. When was Rousseau born?
(a) 1704.
(b) 1698.
(c) 1722.
(d) 1712.

4. How many people did Anders Behring Breivik kill in Norway in 2011?
(a) About 150.
(b) 235.
(c) Nearly 200.
(d) 175.

5. For how many decades after leaving the United States did Santayana warn that disseminating a worldwide individualist culture would lead to violence?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

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

7. As stated in the Prologue, where did Rimbaud go gun-running?
(a) Java.
(b) Ethiopia.
(c) Tunisia.
(d) Indonesia.

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

9. What country originated "Arab Spring" (5)?
(a) Tunisia.
(b) Syria.
(c) Iraq.
(d) Egypt.

10. When was The Futurist Manifesto produced?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1903.

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

12. When did Rousseau write Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise?
(a) 1736.
(b) 1759.
(c) 1742.
(d) 1761.

13. When did Johann Gottlieb insist on a planned and self-sufficient economy?
(a) 1822
(b) 1800.
(c) 1814.
(d) 1793.

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

15. What color uniform did Gabriele D'Annunzio design?
(a) Khaki.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

2. Where did Alexis de Tocqueville wish to create a French Empire?

3. When was The Post-American World written?

4. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?

5. From where did volunteers come to join Fiume's carnival of militarism?

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