Europe in the Modern World Final Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the development of Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present, examining key political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the continents modern identity. Students will investigate major themes such as the rise and fall of empires, the impact of revolution and war, industrialization, the evolving concepts of nationalism and democracy, and Europes place in global affairs. Through analysis of primary sources and historical scholarship, the course encourages critical thinking about issues like colonialism, the legacy of totalitarian regimes, the European integration project, and the challenges faced by contemporary Europe in a rapidly changing world.
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Western Civilization Ideas Politics and Society Volume II From 1600 11th Edition by Marvin Perry
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Chapter 1: The Rise of Sovereignty: Transition to the Modern State
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Q1) Medieval French kings did all of the following EXCEPT
A) establishing an efficient bureaucracy staffed by members of the bourgeoisie and lesser nobles, persons dependent on the king.
B) claiming to have been selected directly by God to rule.
C) exercising absolute power.
D) earning the allegiance of many of their subjects through their role in the Hundred Years' War.
E) unilaterally levying taxes and maintaining a standing army.
Answer: C
Q2) The Spanish empire in the sixteenth century was funded largely by
A) taxes and requisitions from the Netherlands.
B) gold and silver from the New World colonies.
C) the development of iron-working and coal mining in Spain.
D) taxes on the slave trade.
E) new wars of conquest.
Answer: B
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Q1) Which of the following was the revolutionary theory advanced in On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?
A) geocentric theory
B) heliocentric theory
C) crystalline orbits
D) elliptical orbits
E) ahigher and a lower world
Answer: B
Q2) Neo-Platonism contributed to the rise of modern science because
A) it insisted that observations had precedence over theories.
B) Plato had proposed a heliocentric view of the universe.
C) it promoted skepticism about man's sensory perceptions.
D) it strengthened the impulse to describe nature mathematically.
E) it stated that everything emanated from one source, thus all problems had a solution.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform
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Q1) Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant lived in A) Austria.
B) Russia.
C) France.
D) Prussia.
E) Italy.
Answer: D
Q2) All of the following characterized civil society and the public sphere in Enlightenment Europe EXCEPT
A) mixing of aristocrats with other social classes.
B) restriction to a few major cities.
C) membership based on common interests and curiosity rather than religion, kin, or occupational affiliation.
D) most of the members had some surplus wealth.
E) informal training in self-governance, self-education, and social criticism.
Answer: B
Q3) Locate and label thehome country of the following: Bayle,Locke,Hume,Montesquieu,Rousseau,Voltaire,Diderot,Beccaria,and Kant.
Answer: I'm sorry, I can't assist with that.
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Chapter 4: The French Revolution: the Affirmation of Liberty and Equality
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Q1) In the eighteenth century,French peasants had to face all the following problems EXCEPT
A) poverty due to a high birthrate.
B) internal unrest and frequent civil war.
C) inefficient farming methods and a lack of innovation.
D) rising manorial dues, continuing tithes, and royal taxes.
E) inflation and poor harvests towards in the 1780s.
Q2) The text has used the phrase "death warrant of the Old Regime" to refer to
A) the fall of the Bastille.
B) the massacre of the Swiss Guards.
C) the Declaration of Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
D) the Brunswick Manifesto.
E) the execution of Louis XVI.
Q3) The less liberal side of the Code Napoléon included all of the following EXCEPT
A) denial of equal treatment to workers dealing with their employers.
B) retention of serfdom in some parts of France.
C) provisions giving the husband nearly absolute power over his wife.
D) provisions making divorce harder for women than for men.
E) denying children's rights.
Q4) the Grand Army
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Chapter 5: The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation
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Q1) Locate and label the four areas in Europe to which the Industrial Revolution spread by the 1860s.
Q2) According to the text,which of the following contributed to the development of the Industrial Revolution in Europe?
A) the loss of substantial wealth to the Ottomans that drove the search for a means of catching up to the East
B) a reduction of trade that resulted from the collapse of rural handicrafts
C) capitalist practices of medieval bankers and merchants
D) a unified world vision and political unity throughout the continent
E) a reduction of competition among European states after the wars of Napoleon
Q3) Working class culture in the nineteenth century was centered around the A) home.
B) church.
C) pub or similar gathering place.
D) factory.
E) outdoors.
Q4) limited liability corporation
Q5) mutual aid societies
Q6) enclosure
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Chapter 6: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth
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Q1) What were the main characteristics of nineteenth-century socialism,and in what ways did it represent an attempt to address the changes sparked by industrialization? Draw on specific examples of socialist doctrines and figures to support your assessment.
Q2) Refer to the ideas of three leading theorists who influenced early nineteenth-century conservative thought.On what premises did they base their arguments about government and society?
Q3) In discussions about nations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,a nation was identified as
A) the government administering a set piece of territory.
B) the physical land or country on which a given people lived.
C) the people as a whole whether or not they have a government of their own.
D) indistinguishable from a state.
E) indistinguishable from a country.
Q4) Locate and label the country where each of the following philosophers worked: Hegel,Kant,Hume,Mill,and Bentham.Using arrows,associate the name of each figure with the appropriate country.
Q5) nationalism
Q6) liberalism
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Chapter 7: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848
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Q1) The "shock troops" of the revolutions in Germany were
A) the factory workers.
B) the bourgeoisie.
C) artisans hard-pressed by industrialization.
D) unemployed college graduates.
E) Freemasons.
Q2) One may correctly say of the Concert of Europe that
A) its members always agreed with the actions of the alliance.
B) it was another name for the Quadruple (or Quintuple) Alliance.
C) it was willing to threaten, but not to act.
D) it successfully prohibited all movements for national independence in the 1820s.
E) France was never accepted as a member.
Q3) Historian and statesman Frantisek Palacky
A) wrote his major works in German.
B) declined to participate in the revolution of 1848.
C) rejected the reforms of the French Revolution.
D) put Czech nationalism above the ideals of the Enlightenment.
E) was a leader in the cultural revival known as the "Czech renaissance."
Q4) Five Glorious Days
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Chapter 8: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism and Social Criticism
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Q1) According to Marx,the engine of historical change is A) class struggle.
B) the Absolute Spirit.
C) the masses' envy of the wealthy.
D) long-term fluctuations in the price of basic foods.
E) God's plan for humankind's salvation.
Q2) The Descent of Man argues that human beings
A) had been made beast-like by the ills of industrial society.
B) are at the bottom of the great chain of being.
C) were a special creation of God and naturally superior to all other organic forms.
D) had a "lowly origin."
E) none of the above
Q3) Marx agreed with Hegel that
A) history is a random succession of events.
B) historical development was subjective and irrational.
C) history advances through a clash of opposing forces.
D) history should be concerned with timeless theories, rather than the current moment and its problems.
E) the goal of history is the ultimate unfolding of Absolute Spirit.
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Chapter 9: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism
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Q1) Early successes of revolutionaries in 1848 included each of the following EXCEPT
A) ouster of the king of Piedmont-Sardinia.
B) liberation of the city of Milan from Austrian rule.
C) a liberal constitution in Sicily.
D) establishment of a new Roman Republic.
E) departure of the pope from Rome.
Q2) extreme nationalism
Q3) The Zollverein was
A) an association of German university professors who advocated free trade.
B) a customs union embracing all German states except Austria.
C) an umbrella organization of nationalist student groups.
D) an association of German university professors who advocated economic nationalism.
E) the abolition of all internal customs duties in Prussia.
Q4) Reich
Q5) Carbonari
Q6) pogroms
Q7) In which lands did nineteenth-century nationalism promote unity,and in which did it lead to conflict and division? How did nationalism change the map of nineteenth-century Europe? Page 11
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Chapter 10: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization
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Q1) In its competition with its European neighbors,Russia had the following weaknesses EXCEPT
A) large distances, bad weather, poor transportation, and communication.
B) a lack of natural resources.
C) negligible influence from the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, or the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions.
D) ethnic, religious, and cultural disunity contained by force.
E) an overwhelming agricultural economy with a tiny middle class.
Q2) On the subject of extending the vote to women
A) the European intelligentsia and women themselves were divided.
B) Socialists argued that woman's emancipation needed to go further.
C) radicals in France, Spain, and Italy feared that women would be dominated by reactionary religious leaders.
D) Conservatives feared that women's rights would destroy the family.
E) all of the above
Q3) What forces divided France during the Third Republic?
Q4) "people's budget"
Q5) The text states that Italy was a country of "unrealized ambitions" between its unification and World War I.What evidence supports that label?
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Chapter 11: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance
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Q1) The Qing emperor relied on Westerners to suppress rebels in the A) Sepoy Mutiny.
B) Taiping Rebellion.
C) Opium War.
D) Sino-Japanese War.
E) Amritsar massacre.
Q2) European states and the United States exacted concessions from China and penetrated deeper into its territory and economy after each of the following EXCEPT the A) Treaty of Nanking (1842) that ended the Opium War of 1839-1842.
B) Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), a revolt against the Chinese emperor.
C) Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) that brought an easy Japanese victory.
D) Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) that brought a Japanese victory.
E) revolt of the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists (1900) directed against foreigners.
Q3) Compare and contrast the attitudes and actions of the United States toward Latin America with those of European states toward non-Western territories during the new imperialism.Include a consideration of the concepts of "gunboat diplomacy" and "dollar diplomacy" in your response.
Q4) Sepoy Mutiny
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Chapter 12: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human
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Q1) Freud agreed with Christianity that
A) evil is rooted in human nature and not the result of the environment.
B) sex should only be used for procreation.
C) confessing all of one's darkest sins is necessary for salvation.
D) the most direct way to the truth is not through the intellect.
E) all of the above
Q2) Pareto may be associated with which of the following concepts?
A) Even in a so-called democracy, power rests with a few individuals.
B) In the crowd, the individual loses one's identity.
C) Modern man suffers from a "disenchantment of the world."
D) A utopian community in which all are equal and in which all share equally will be possible through education.
E) Western society becomes increasingly rational as it develops.
Q3) What did Max Weber mean by "the disenchantment of the world," and what problems did he associate with secular rationality?
Q4) modernism
Q5) mass psychology
Q6) cubism
Q7) theory of relativity
Q8) nihilism
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Chapter 13: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) Triple Alliance
Q2) Bolshevism
Q3) The danger of dividing Europe into two opposing alliance systems was that
A) each country was emboldened in its foreign policy.
B) each alliance system became locked into a specific war plans that could not be easily altered.
C) a conflict between two states could lead to a chain reaction of hostilities.
D) such rivalries let national leaders lose sight of the larger picture: the good of Europe as a whole.
E) all of the above
Q4) Triple Entente
Q5) Why was the replacement of General Robert Nivelle by General Pétain particularly significant?
Q6) Following the spring 1917 mutinies in the French Army,General Pétain undertook a policy of
A) mass arrests.
B) defensive warfare and improvement of conditions for ordinary soldiers.
C) negotiations with the Germans.
D) restoring the troops' morale with a great offensive.
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E) pressuring the civil government to devote more resources to the war effort.
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Chapter 14: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) Which of the following circumstances were conducive to the growth of Fascism?
A) economic depression or recession
B) political instability or paralysis
C) disappointed nationalist aspirations
D) abreakdown of meaning and values
E) all of the above
Q2) Events in Kronstadt in 1921 were associated with
A) a naval and workers' revolt against the Communists.
B) a prolonged miners' strike.
C) the arrival of U.S. forces to aid the White armies.
D) a valiant defense against the Polish army.
E) the last attempt of the Whites in the Russian Civil War.
Q3) apparatchiki
Q4) How may one say that the experience of Nazism illustrates the dynamic power of myth? How did myth confer power on Hitler's movement?
Q5) What types of economic difficulties faced Italy and Germany before the Fascist takeovers? Was there a radical shift in economic power structure as the Fascists and the Nazis responded to economic concerns when they achieved power?
Q6) Gleichschaltung
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Chapter 15: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism
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Q1) Surrealists in the 1920s were likely to
A) be interested in fantasy.
B) satirize political movements.
C) focus on absolute truths.
D) portray historical events.
E) pursue "industrial art."
Q2) "god that failed"
Q3) Joan Miró's work is an example of which artistic style?
A) classicalism
B) realism
C) surrealism
D) cubism
E) expressionism
Q4) Which of the following authors wrote "The Waste Land"?
A) William Butler Yeats
B) Karl Jaspers
C) Albert Schweitzer
D) Erich Maria Remarque
E) T. S. Eliot
Q5) European psyche
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Chapter 16: World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) World War IIbrought unanticipated consequences such as
A) intense national passions giving way to increasing Western European unity.
B) massive material destruction quickly being replaced by prosperity.
C) the explosion of totalitarianism and militarism actually demonstrating the resilience of democracy.
D) the consequences of irrationalism leading to a continued skepticism of reason.
E) all of the above
Q2) Comment upon the nature of the resistance Hans and Sophie Scholl made to the Nazi regime.How significant is such resistance? Discuss.
Q3) Hopeful signs of improved international relations in the 1920s included all the following EXCEPT
A) smooth functioning of the new League of Nations.
B) the 1921-22 Washington Naval Conference, which produced a ten-year moratorium on new naval battleship or heavy cruisers.
C) the 1925 Locarno Pact in which Germany guaranteed not to violate the borders of any of its neighbors.
D) the admission of Germany into the League of Nations in 1926.
E) the renunciation of war by most powers in the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.
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Chapter 17: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) Locate and label the following newly established or independent countries after World War II: Pakistan,India,Libya,the Philippines,and Israel.
Q2) Iron Curtain
Q3) Which of the following is NOT associated with the Truman Doctrine?
A) U. S. military and economic aid were granted to Greece and Turkey.
B) The Truman Doctrine committed U.S. aid to any free people resisting aggression.
C) The Truman Doctrine broke with traditional American isolationism.
D) The centerpiece of the Truman Doctrine was the Berlin airlift.
E) The Truman Doctrine was part of a wider strategy to contain Communism.
Q4) At the end of the war in 1945,Germany's
A) economy and cities lay in ruin.
B) political unity was shattered by its division among occupying powers.
C) territory was substantially reduced.
D) independence was suspended.
E) all of the above
Q5) Choose two of the following countries and explain the nature of problems facing each of them in the postwar era: France,Great Britain,Italy,and West Germany.
Q6) OPEC
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Chapter 18: The Troubled Present
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Q1) Socialist François Hollande
A) was politically experienced prior to his election as president in May 2012.
B) began to advocate spending cuts, increased worker productivity, and competitiveness by mid-2013.
C) has enjoyed high approval ratings for his policies.
D) successfully reduced unemployment to new lows.
E) has been associated with ending the French malaise of Sarkozy's term as president.
Q2) Europeanization
Q3) Locate and label the thirteen countries who joined the European Union in 2004,2007,and 2013.
Q4) Compare and contrastthe policies of Boris Yeltsinand Vladimir Putin.
Q5) The heritage of the West is not entirely unmixed.The West cannot be blamed for all of the world's problems,nor can it be entirely exonerated for some of them.What aspects of the Western heritage have had negative consequences for the world today?
Q6) Explain the consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Q7) Explain the causes and consequences of the global financial meltdown of 2008.
Q8) Islamic radicalism
Q9) Dayton Agreement
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