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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 Huntington hail as the "epitome of a modernizing monarch" (129)?
(a) Shah of Iran.
(b) Ataturk.
(c) Auyb Khan.
(d) Ben Bella.

2. When did McEwan write Amsterdam?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1981.

3. How many Italian laborers emigrated between 1870 and 1914?
(a) 2 million.
(b) 14 million.
(c) 10 million.
(d) 5 million.

4. When did King Umberto I of Italy survive an attempt on his life made by an anarchist?
(a) 1878.
(b) 1880.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1881.

5. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1891.
(d) 1897.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did McVeigh participate in exercises against Saddam Hussein's troops?

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

3. At stated in "Losing My Religion," by when did civilization become synonymous with progress through the "triumph of the will" (132)?

4. When did Ahmed Darrawi disappear and then resurface months later?

5. When did the movement the People's Will assassinate Alexander II?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?

2. In "Losing My Religion," what did Escobar reveal about Western ways of modernizing not working in the 1970s?

3. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did Bakunin view the future?

4. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ahmed Darrawi and what was his philosophy?

6. In "Losing My Religion," what is the clash of civilizations theory?

7. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?

8. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how did Germany defeat France in 1871?

9. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?

10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," who was Ramzi Ahmed Yousef?

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