Age of Anger Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Pankaj Mishra
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Age of Anger Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Pankaj Mishra
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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. Who did Rousseau disagree with most violently?
(a) Kant.
(b) Voltaire.
(c) Hume.
(d) Diderot.

2. How many articles did Rousseau contribute to the Encyclopedia?
(a) About 350.
(b) 375.
(c) Nearly 400.
(d) 415.

3. In 2014 in The Economist, how long was it said that it would take most of the human population to catch up with the West?
(a) 3 centuries.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 75 years.
(d) 200 years.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?

2. How many children did Rousseau have with a near-illiterate seamstress?

3. When was there a financial crisis in Asia?

4. According to the Prologue, who prepared the way for neo-traditionalist backlashes to the bourgeoisie?

5. In the Prologue, when did Frenchmen massacre dozens of Italian immigrant labourers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," in Le Mondain, what did Voltaire tell people to do?

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

4. In "Loving Onself Through Others," how is Rosseau's history of the human heart still playing itself out?

5. In the Prologue, what was the ideological orthodoxy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

6. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," what was Rosseau's upbringing?

7. In "Clearing a Space," what has happened because of the belief systems and institutions that Britain, France, and the United States initiated and advanced?

8. In the Prologue, what did Mikhail Bakunin say about the revolutionist?

9. In "Clearing a Space," what was the purpose of history and how did it become sanitized?

10. In the Prologue, what was the attitude and thought about the world after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?

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