Alternative Questions

1.       What simple ideal is baked into the concept of the nation itself?(73).

2.       To be a nation, it is not enough to meet an objective condition of common descent; you have to meet what subjective condition? (76).

3.       The idea of a national spirit existed in the writings of what great German Romantic philosopher? (82).

4.       As a rule, people do not live in what kind of nation-states , and they never have? (88).

5.       How did the state make sure CMIOs did not segregate themselves too much geographically? (94).

6.       Once we reject the notion that some natural unity gives countries their shape, what puzzle are we left with? (99).

7.       What binds citizens together? (103).

8.       Who did Nietzsche call “the first of living historians”? (114).

9.       Who earned the first doctorate at Harvard awarded to an African-American? (124).

10.   Amo’s odyssey asks us to imagine what he seems to have yearned for which was what? (134).