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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 people (mostly women) were sterilized after 1935 in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland?
(a) Hundreds.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Tens of thousands.
(d) Thousands.
2. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1861.
(c) 1847.
(d) 1833.
3. Who said that revolution is "not a dinner party" (134)?
(a) Ataturk.
(b) Bhutto.
(c) Nehru.
(d) Mao.
4. When did Timothy McVeigh bomb the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1994.
5. As stated in "Losing My Religion," how long did the postcolonial world have to create the political and economic developments that took more than a century to develop in Europe and America?
(a) 4 or 5 decades.
(b) 60 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 2 or 3 decades.
Short Answer Questions
1. When did Conrad write Heart of Darkness?
2. How old was Herder when he went to be a pastor in Riga?
3. When was McVeigh executed for his crimes?
4. When was Gandhi shot?
5. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how did Germany defeat France in 1871?
2. In "Losing My Religion," what did some argue about the suitability of the Western model of development for their countries?
3. In "Losing My Religion," what did Stifter say in his novel Indian Summer about the things that occurred when modernity encroached on an area?
4. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?
5. In "Losing My Religion," what happened that left men uprooted from rural habits and led them to rage against the modern West?
6. In "Regaining My Religion: II Messianic Visions," who was Adam Mickiewicz?
7. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what groups in the "recent past" (290) have used terrorist violence as a tactic?
8. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," why were Germans impatient for their country to become a new society in the 18th century?
9. In "Losing My Religion," what ideas about the unenlightened Oriental can be traced back to Montesquieu?
10. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?
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