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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language was The Blind Owl written in?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Turkish.
(c) Persian.
(d) French.

2. As stated in "Finding True Freedom and Equlity," when did foreign radicals make up a large number of the radical Communards in Paris?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1871.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1869.

3. When did Emile Henry bomb a cafe in Paris?
(a) 2003.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1894.
(d) 1990.

4. Where was Adam Mickiewicz born?
(a) Switzerland.
(b) Lithuania.
(c) Poland.
(d) Albania.

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

6. When was the attack against Brussels that was written about in Charlie Hebdo?
(a) January 2016.
(b) November 2016.
(c) March 2016.
(d) April 2016.

7. When did Vladimir Putin announce that Russia and Russians would strive to be leaders?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2014.
(d) 2013.

8. What religion does Mishra say is taking over India?
(a) Janism.
(b) Sikhism.
(c) Buddhism.
(d) Hinduism.

9. When did Gandhi write his first eulogy to Mazzini?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1905.

10. In 1886, how many strikers were shot outside the McCormic Reaper Works?
(a) 11.
(b) 6.
(c) 24.
(d) 3.

11. Who wrote a narrative poem about the statue of Peter the Great?
(a) Dmitriev.
(b) Pushkin.
(c) Barkov.
(d) Andreev.

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

13. When did James Macpherson publish ancient Gaelic poetry he said he discovered in Scotland?
(a) 1761.
(b) 1773.
(c) 1794.
(d) 1750.

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

15. When did Georg Forster died?
(a) 1794.
(b) 1772.
(c) 1764.
(d) 1781.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?

2. Where is the novel Indian Summer by Stifter set?

3. How many people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?

4. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

5. Who became the biggest consumers of French wines?

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