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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 religion does Mishra say is taking over India?

2. Who was the first man to call himself an anarchist?

3. When did Omar Mateen kill 49 people at a gay club in Orlando?

4. How many Iraqis were killed in 1990?

5. How early did Tocqueville warn Algerian compatriots not to get rid of the country's philanthropic and educational systems?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 happened that left men uprooted from rural habits and led them to rage against the modern West?

4. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what does Mishra argue that ISIS owes its existence to?

5. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," how did McVeigh feel about the people he killed in Iraq?

6. In "Finding True Freedom and Equality," what did men in the 19th century long for?

7. In "Regaining My Religion: I Nationalism Unbound," how was Ghandi killed?

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," why did Hitler admire Ataturk?

10. In "Losing My Religion," what did Stifter say in his novel Indian Summer about the things that occurred when modernity encroached on an area?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mishra began considering writing Age of Anger in 2014. What happened in 2014? What other events were influences for him? What does he try to make sense of in the book? What does he reveal about crises and history? Why did Mishra write the book?

Essay Topic 2

Mishra believes that a universal crisis exists in the world today. What forces does Mishra see in the world today that are more complex than those forces that caused the great wars? What unrest does he see? Why does he believe that there may be a global civil war?

Essay Topic 3

The author reveals negative effects of materialism and consumerism. How does the author think that the Atlantic West’s ideas and economic and social structures have impacted the world? What have materialism and consumerism replaced in cultures? What does Mishra reveal about the negative effects of materialism and consumerism?

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