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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In "Clearing a Space," when was My Age, My Beast written?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1915.

3. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1997.

4. Who believed that in a trade one man could only benefit at someone else's expense?
(a) Bacon.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Balfour.
(d) Montaigne.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was philosopher and theologian Herder's nationality?

2. When did Voltaire die?

3. What was the occupation of Rousseau's father?

4. What was the last book Rousseau wrote, which was never finished?

5. When did Voltaire publish Le Mondain?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Montaigne's impression of moneymaking, and how did that idea change in the 18th century?

2. In the Prologue, what mystery did Emile Durkheim struggle with in his book from 1897?

3. In "Clearing a Space," who did Reinhold Niebuhr mock?

4. In "Clearing a Space," what became the universalist creed and what was seen as a marker of progress?

5. In October of 1749, where was Diderot and why was he there?

6. In the Prologue, who was Gabriele D'Annunzio, and what was he know for?

7. In "Clearing a Space," whose ideas need to be understood and then dismantled?

8. In the Prologue during the first half of the 20th century, who embraced the theories of Social Darwinism?

9. At the end of the Prologue, what does the author believe is a measure of the global civil war taking place?

10. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what did Adam Smith envision?

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