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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 were their ethnic cleansings in the Balkans and Rwanda?

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

3. In the Prologue, when did an Italian poet occupy a town?

4. What was Rousseau's ideal society?

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

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 the Prologue what are many themes of the global unrest that the author has seen?

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

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

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," in Le Mondain, what did Voltaire tell people to do?

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

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

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

10. In the Prologue, who was Gabriele D'Annunzio, and what was he know for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra believes that political revolutions have awakened the masses. How have political revolutions awakened the masses? What desires did political revolutions stir in the masses? How successful have political revolutions been in fulfilling the desires they have stirred? What have been the results of political revolutions?

Essay Topic 2

The role of religion changed before and after the Enlightenment. What was the role of religion before the Enlightenment? How did the role of religion change after the Enlightenment? What was the connection between the removal of religion from everyday life and the rise of nationalism and individualism?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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