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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Prussia, along with Russia, Saxony, Saxony-Weimar, Brunswick and Hanover, declare war on France?
(a) 1806.
(b) 1805.
(c) 1803.
(d) 1804.

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

3. When was the liberal catchword "Bildung" (186)?
(a) 1760s.
(b) 1780s.
(c) 1790s.
(d) 1770s.

4. When was Germany able to defeat France with the help of railways and telegraph networks?
(a) 1871.
(b) 1870.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1872.

5. Where did Ataturk defeat Allied forces?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Iran.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Iraq.

6. What Mexican revolutionary did Paz write about in the late 1940s?
(a) Zapata.
(b) Diaz.
(c) Madero.
(d) Huerta.

7. How much did the suit cost that an Indian Hindu revivalist prime minister wore?
(a) $7,500.
(b) $8,500.
(c) $15,000.
(d) $21,000.

8. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Bhutto.
(b) Nehru.
(c) Ataturk.
(d) Mao.

9. When did revolution break out across Europe?
(a) 1839.
(b) 1853.
(c) 1821.
(d) 1848.

10. When did Gandhi write Hind Swanaj?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1902.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1917.

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

12. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?
(a) Germany.
(b) France.
(c) United States.
(d) Russia.

13. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Tens of thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Hundreds of thousands.

14. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?
(a) 1861.
(b) 1847.
(c) 1859.
(d) 1833.

15. When did Errico Malatesta, an Italian, join Egyptian nationalists in a revolt against British imperialists?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1883.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lives were said to have been lost in building Western city on the banks of the Neva?

2. How old was Herder when he went to be a pastor in Riga?

3. When did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?

4. When did Vladimir Putin announce that Russia and Russians would strive to be leaders?

5. As stated in "Finding True Freedom and Equlity," when did foreign radicals make up a large number of the radical Communards in Paris?

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