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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. What Catholic monarchist disliked Voltaire and Rousseau?

2. When did Rousseau inaugurate the modern revolt against modernity?

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?

4. When were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

5. When was the first televised beheading?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Clearing a Space," what is modernity?

3. In "Clearing a Space," what historical calamities undermined the idea of Western universalism?

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

5. In "Clearing a Space," what did Fukuyama and Zakaria have to say about Western civilization and world development?

6. In "Clearing a Space," what did Timothy McVeigh write about a demagogic present in 1992?

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The word “philosophes” was a French word for philosopher. How did philosophes view themselves and their abilities? How did their role change in the time period before and after Voltaire? What was the role of the philosophe in society?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra discusses free-market capitalism and economic life. When was free-market capitalism touted as the only way to organize economic life? What problems have arisen from the free-market capitalism economic system? What does the author communicate about free-market capitalism as a way to organize global economic life?

Essay Topic 3

Mishra believes there is a connection between fanaticism and extremism. How are fanaticism and extremism timeless ideals? How does the intensity of fanaticism determine how destructive it becomes? What is extremism a reaction to? How is fanaticism the intensity of the response to those perceived wrongs?

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