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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did D'Annunzio die?

2. When did Tocqueville speak before the French Chamber of Deputies regarding the speed that the globe was unifying?

3. To what book did Hannah Arendt write a preface in 1950?

4. When did Timothy McVeigh kill 168 Americans in Oklahoma City?

5. When did the Rabindranath Tagore tour the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In "Loving Oneself Through Others," why did Rousseau become an outsider?

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

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

9. In the Prologue, what view does the author say that the book takes of a universal crisis?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Global capitalism sets up expectations of what life will be like, especially for the downtrodden. What do people expect when capitalism is implemented? What mismatch is there between expectations and reality? Why are people disappointed at the results of capitalism? How does this create tendencies for violence? What is revealed about the results of global capitalism because of the mismatch between what people expect from life and the speed in which life changes?

Essay Topic 2

Ghandi was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist. What was the goal of Hindu nationalists? How did Ghandi oppose those goals? What is revealed about nationalism in India through Ghandi’s assassination?

Essay Topic 3

The tragedy of 9/11 made people wonder how individuals could be opposed to modernity. What does Mishra have to say about Islam versus the West? How did 9/11 increase the conflict? What is thought about people who oppose modernity? How has modernity not taken root in traditional and backward Muslim countries? How has this caused a clash between Islam and the West? What is revealed about opposition to modernity through this clash?

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