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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 Bakunin and Wagner flee the failed revolution in Dresden?

2. When did al-Suri drop out of university to join a radical group?

3. When did a bomb planted by Sikh militants bring down a Boeing 747 traveling from Montreal to Delhi?

4. When did Vladimir Putin announce that Russia and Russians would strive to be leaders?

5. Since when had the Ottoman Empire offered refuge to Polish exiles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," what did Martin Wolf say about the "magic of the market" (167)?

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 Bakunin view the future?

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was the first large-scale attack by a "domestic" (275) terrorist in the United States?

6. In "Losing My Religion," what happened that left men uprooted from rural habits and led them to rage against the modern West?

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

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

9. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what was Herzen's plan as he wrote to his son?

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

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

Mishra discusses the poem Le Mondain written by Voltaire. What was Le Mondain an ode to? What ideals about wealth were followed in the Middle Ages? How did Voltaire dismiss the Christian past? What did he promote instead? What changes did he propose in Western culture? In what way did Voltaire usher in a moral revolution through Le Mondain?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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