Foundations of Western Society Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
Foundations of Western Society explores the historical, philosophical, and cultural roots that have shaped Western civilization from antiquity to the modern era. Through an interdisciplinary approach, the course examines key developments in politics, religion, art, literature, and science, highlighting pivotal moments such as Ancient Greece and Rome, the rise of Christianity, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment. By analyzing influential texts, events, and figures, students gain an understanding of the values, institutions, and ideas that continue to influence contemporary Western societies.
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The Western Heritage Combined Volume 11th Edition by Donald M. Kagan
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Chapter 1: The Birth of Civilization
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Q1) Modern scholars view the Hebrew Bible as ________.
A)the definitive source of the history of the Israelites
B)a piece of literature to be totally ignored with regard to history
C)only one book in a seemingly infinitesimal number of accounts of the Israelites
D)a source to be taken seriously,while considering its historical claims with caution
Answer: D
Q2) In 550 b.c.e. ,which king captured the capital at Ecbatana and united the Medes and Persians under his rule?
A)Herodotus
B)Cyrus I
C)Cambyses
D)Cyrus II
Answer: D
Q3) The discovery of combining tin and copper to make a stronger and more useful material signified the beginning of the ________ Age.
Answer: Bronze
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Chapter 2: The Rise of Greek Civilization
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Q1) An effect of Draco's special authority to codify and publish laws for the first time was the ________.
A)granting of rights of habeas corpus
B)granting of the right of the accused to face their accuser
C)publication of set laws that applied to all of the lower classes
D)publication of laws strengthening the hand of the state against powerful nobles
Answer: D
Q2) Miltiades,who had fled from Persian service,led the Greeks to a vital victory over the Persians at ________.
A)Tempe
B)Thebes
C)Corinth
D)Marathon
Answer: D
Q3) The highest virtue in Homeric society was ________.
Answer: arete
Q4) ________ was the writer of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Answer: Homer
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) In 422 b.c.e. ,Cleon,the leader of Athens,and Brasidas,the leader of Sparta,both died in battle,leading the way to the ________.
A)Peloponnesian War
B)Corinthian War
C)Theban War
D)Peace of Nicias
Answer: D
Q2) A literary genre called ________ presented a comic-realistic depiction of daily life,turning the attention away from the weakened structure of the polis.
A)Middle Comedy
B)Old Comedy
C)epic poetry
D)lyric poetry
Answer: A
Q3) The term "________" was coined in the nineteenth century to describe the period of three centuries during which Greek culture spread far from its homeland to Egypt and deep into Asia.
Answer: Hellenistic
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Chapter 4: Rome: From Republic to Empire
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Q1) Who were coloni?
A)midlevel officers of the army responsible for a single platoon
B)humanist teachers who developed punctuation for Latin
C)divinators who looked for signs in sheep intestines
D)tenant farmers who replaced most agricultural slave labor
Q2) The Romans came into contact with Hellenized culture in ________.
A)New Carthage
B)books
C)Athens
D)southern Italy
Q3) Following the First Punic War,Sicily was settled as a province,meaning ________.
A)Sicilians paid tribute rather than served in the Roman army
B)Sicilians needed passports to visit the mainland
C)Romans retained the right to Sicilian marble
D)Sicilians were allowed to maintain self-governance
Q4) Compare the influence on Rome of the Etruscans and Greeks.Did the conquest of these two peoples influence Rome's attitude towards their cultures?
Q5) Was Rome part of the Hellenistic world? Support your answer with details.
Q6) Do you believe Caesar wanted to be king? What are the implications of your answer?
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Chapter 5: The Roman Empire
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Q1) When the bishop of Milan excommunicated emperor Theodosius I for ordering a massacre,the emperor ________.
A)had the bishop killed
B)paid penance
C)massacred the bishop's family
D)returned to worshipping pagan gods
Q2) Typical cities in the Roman Empire had about 20,000 inhabitants.Rome itself had more than ________ (choose the largest correct answer).
A)40,000
B)80,000
C)120,000
D)500,000
Q3) The fourth- and fifth-century "decline and fall of the Roman Empire" refers to the diminishing fortunes of ________.
A)the frontier provinces
B)Rome and the Italian peninsula
C)the eastern empire
D)the western empire
Q4) Jesus of Nazareth was named christos by his followers,meaning "________."
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Chapter 6: Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages:
Creating a New European Society and Culture 4761000
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Q1) Charlemagne developed the intellectual center of Aachen to patronize scholars and promote classical and Christian education.One result of his efforts was ________.
A)the Lord's Prayer
B)a new design for furniture,attaching a desk to a chair
C)the Carolingian sect of Christian monks
D)Carolingian minuscule,a style of handwriting
Q2) Why has martyrdom become so important to Shi'a Muslims?
A)Ali,whom they believed to be the true caliph,was assassinated by other Muslims.
B)A strong vision of the afterlife cannot come soon enough for some Shi'as.
C)Throughout his long life,Ali taught the importance of sacrifice.
D)They believe martyrdom is the only path to heaven.
Q3) The Merovingian Dynasty was founded by the warrior chieftain ________.
A)Charlemagne
B)Clovis
C)Lothar
D)Merovich
Q4) For centuries,the major texts on medicine in the Western world were compilations of work by ________ scholars.
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Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages: the Rise of European Empires
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Q1) The church reform movement of the early tenth century was based in ________.
A)Cluny
B)Otto's court
C)Wittenberg
D)the Vatican
Q2) What was the Domesday Book?
A)a county-by-county survey of property
B)a book of theories as to how Armageddon would occur
C)an account of the battle of Hastings and the conquest of Britain
D)instructions on how to blend monarchical and parliamentary elements of government
Q3) Consider the administrative actions taken by the Ottonians.Why do you believe the church was so dissatisfied with Ottonian control?
Q4) National feeling in France _______ during the reign of Louis IX.
A)plummeted,then rose
B)gradually declined
C)grew strong
D)remained the same
Q5) What factors influenced the move from Romanesque to Gothic art and architecture?
Q6) A grateful Pope John XII crowned Otto ________ on February 2,962.
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Chapter 8: Medieval Society: Hierarchies, towns, universities, and Families (1000-1300)
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Q1) In the eighth century,wide use of what invention made the cavalry indispensable?
A)collar harness
B)horseshoe
C)bit and bridle
D)stirrups
Q2) ________ was possibly the brightest logician and dialectician of the High Middle Ages,but paid dearly for it,ending his life in a priory.
A)Abelard
B)Aquinas
C)Peter the Lombard
D)Ptolemy
Q3) The nunnery was an option for single women from ________.
A)lower social classes
B)higher social classes
C)merchants and artisan families
D)all social classes
Q4) Bologna was famous for its university,which was a union of _______.
Q5) In the later Middle Ages,serfs started paying their dues in ________ payments.
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Q6) The one social group that was open to all,regardless of birth or military skill,was the
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Chapter 9: The Late Middle Ages: Social and Political Breakdown
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Q1) The Black Death found its way into Europe via ________.
A)North Africa
B)Italy
C)Spain
D)Scandinavia
Q2) The nobles lost power relative to other groups in the wake of the plague because they were the ______.
A)largest landowners
B)most devout Christians
C)most malnourished
D)most influenced by the famines of the early 1300s
Q3) ___________ was the teaching that the efficacy of the church's sacraments did not only lie in their true performance,but also depended on the moral character of the clergy who administered them.
Q4) What two traditional "containers" of monarchy were put on the defensive after the Black Death?
A)landed nobility and the church
B)the church and the townspeople
C)universities and landed nobility
D)the peasantry and rural priests
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Chapter 10: Renaissance and Discovery
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Q1) An agreement called the ________,reached in 1356 by Emperor Charles IV and the major German territorial rulers,established a seven-member electoral college to administer the German empire.
Q2) In 1500,the title "duke of Romagna" was given to ________.
A)French King Charles VIII
B)Ferdinand of Aragon
C)French King Louis XII
D)Cesare Borgia
Q3) After the Black Death reduced the supply of laborers everywhere in Western Europe,the demand for _________ soared.
Q4) Medieval Europe was a feudal society that had a(n)________.
A)growing lay and secular control of thought and culture
B)agricultural economy and was dominated by the church
C)growing national consciousness and political centralization
D)urban economy based on organized commerce and capitalism
Q5) Who was a close friend of Erasmus?
A)Thomas More
B)John Cabot
C)Christopher Columbus
D)Johann Gutenberg
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Chapter 11: The Age of Reformation
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Q1) ___________ physically separated themselves from society in order to form a more perfect community in imitation of how they believed the first Christians lived.
Q2) How did predestination factor into Calvin's theology?
A)Predestination played no part in Calvin's theology.
B)Predestination played a small part in Calvin's theology.
C)Predestination was central to Calvin's theology.
D)Predestination was important but not central to Calvin's theology.
Q3) In what ways did the Reformation take "steps toward the emancipation of women"? What were the reformers' views of marriage and on the education of women? Do you think the Reformation improved the lives of sixteenth-century women? Explain.
Q4) The events that sparked the Reformation arose from an intersection of which developments?
A)the French invasion of Italy and the end of the Great Schism
B)corruption in the Catholic church and Luther's call for reform
C)the Hundred Years' War and the election of Pope Leo X
D)John Huss' conviction for heresy and the Thirty Years' War
Q5) The __________ first met in 1545 to reform the Catholic Church,but made no doctrinal concessions to the Protestants.
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Chapter 12: The Age of Religious Wars
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Q1) What did the provision in the Edict of Nantes that allowed citizens to maintain fortified towns reveal about social conditions?
A)Protestants and Catholics did not trust one another.
B)Protestants still had to worry about assembling to worship.
C)The threat of Spanish invasion remained real.
D)Protestants had been restricted from entering public universities.
Q2) By 1609,Palatine Calvinists headed a Protestant defensive alliance against Spain with assistance from which of the following nations?
A)England,France,and Germany
B)Belgium,France,and Germany
C)Denmark,France,and the Netherlands
D)England,France,and the Netherlands
Q3) Who did John Knox target in his work First Blast of the Trumpet against the Terrible Regiment of Women?
A)Mary I of England
B)Elizabeth I of England
C)Catherine de Médicis
D)Mary Stewart
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Chapter 13: European State Consolidation in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth
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Q1) What did Peter the Great learn about his son Aleksei that presented a problem for the monarchy?
A)Aleksei was too weak to take over the throne.
B)Aleksei did not want to become king.
C)Aleksei might become a focus for rebellion.
D)His son had entered into a plot to overthrow Peter.
Q2) The Great Northern War involved what two nations?
A)Prussia and Russia
B)Sweden and Norway
C)Russia and Sweden
D)the German Empire and Sweden
Q3) The ________ dynasty ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917.
Q4) Peter the Great replaced the position of patriarch with the ________.
Q5) During the reign of James I,the British Parliament met ________.
A)annually
B)continuously
C)only when convened by the monarch
D)twice a year
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Q6) In the Netherlands,more people lived in __________ than in any other area of Europe.
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Chapter 14: New Directions in Thought and Culture in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Q1) The book on astronomy by Maria Cunitz was ________.
A)initially rejected by the scientific world
B)recognized as her own work only after her husband added a preface
C)considered an important accomplishment for a woman of her day
D)widely read and distributed in universities
Q2) The Berlin Academy of Science denied Maria Winkelmann's application to continue her husband's study because ________.
A)she was a woman
B)her husband had died
C)her work was considered inferior to the work of other scientists
D)she had angered the upper level hierarchy of the Academy
Q3) What is meant by the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century belief that "genuinely new knowledge" about nature and humankind could be discovered? How did this differ from earlier assumptions?
Q4) Pascal's attitude toward reason was that it was ________.
A)un-Christian
B)of little use
C)insufficient for grasping religious concepts
D)superior to faith in understanding the world
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Q5) Bernini was hired by Urban VIII to decorate ________.
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Chapter 15: Society and Economy Under the Old Regime in the Eighteenth Century
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Q1) Women were particularly vulnerable to disease and death resulting from
A)puerperal fever
B)meningitis
C)smallpox
D)typhoid
Q2) In what ways were childhood and childrearing in the eighteenth century similar to today? In what ways were they different? Explain.
Q3) Artisans in cities organized themselves into groups called ________.
Q4) Given what you know about the impact of the industrial revolution on the lives of women,which of the following statements is most applicable?
A)The role and importance of women already in the work force diminished.
B)Women clung to their traditional roles and would not,despite social pressures,work in factories.
C)Women were unable to work in factories with the same output and effectiveness as their male counterparts.
D)The economic freedoms women gained during the industrial revolution carried over to the early years of the suffrage movement.
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Q5) Nearly all French peasants were subject to certain feudal dues called ________.
Chapter 16: The Transatlantic Economy, trade Wars, and Colonial Rebellion
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Q1) Colonial trade in the transatlantic world roughly followed a geographic ________.
A)line
B)triangle
C)square
D)pentagon
Q2) The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle brought the official end to ________.
Q3) The War of Jenkins's Ear was fought by England to block incursions on British trade by ________.
A)Russia
B)France
C)Portugal
D)Spain
Q4) The Seven Years' War was fought mainly in ________.
A)South America
B)North America
C)South Asia
D)Southern Europe
Q5) John Wilkes printed his ideas in his newspaper called ________.
Q6) The ________ system was meant to maintain Spain's monopoly on trade.
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Chapter 17: The Age of Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Thought
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Q1) The phrase "enlightened absolutist" indicates a ________ government dedicated to the rational strengthening of the central absolutist administration at the cost of lesser centers of political power.
Q2) Who believed that the intent of punishment should be to deter further crime,not to impose the will of God?
A)Voltaire
B)Rousseau
C)Wollstonecraft
D)Beccaria
Q3) Catherine the Great of Russia ________.
A)replaced the nobles with loyal government bureaucrats
B)abandoned the ideals of absolutism
C)built a strong alliance with the nobility
D)made an alliance with Poland
Q4) Most European thinkers associated with the Enlightenment ________.
A)favored the extension of European empires across the world
B)were members of the artisan class
C)were proponents of democracy
D)were atheists
Q5) According to Newton and others,nature is ________.
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Chapter 18: The French Revolution
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Q1) On June 1,1789,the Third Estate invited the clergy and the nobles to join them in organizing a new legislative body,which was later named the ________.
Q2) Called the ________,throughout the country,people who had been involved in the Reign of Terror were attacked and often murdered.
Q3) Louis XVI was condemned to death on the charge of ________.
A)conspiring against the liberty of the people
B)the manslaughter of hundreds of revolutionaries
C)subversive actions against the state
D)conspiracy to commit murder
Q4) What two exceptions did the Civil Constitution of the Clergy make in the policy of dissolving religious orders in France?
A)orders who had been supportive of the revolution and those in the countryside
B)orders who had been supportive of the monarchy and those located in urban centers
C)those orders who cared for the sick or ran a school
D)those orders who were well connected to nobles or who had been financially supported by the royal family
Q5) The tempering of the revolution was known as the ________ Reaction.
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Chapter 19: The Age of Napoleon and the Triumph of Romanticism
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Q1) Who wrote The Critique of Pure Reason?
A)Immanuel Kant
B)John Locke
C)Thomas Hobbes
D)Émile Zola
Q2) The declaration of Napoleon as emperor of France was ratified by ________.
A)a plebiscite
B)a voice vote in the Assembly
C)a consul of the republic
D)the Second Coalition
Q3) The thing that made Lyrical Ballads unique is that it ________.
A)was written by two friends
B)was written by Coleridge and Wordsworth
C)embodied Romantic poetry
D)rejected the rules of eighteenth-century criticism
Q4) Explain why German intellectuals urged resistance to Napoleon.
Q5) In his book,On Heroes and Hero-Worship,Thomas Carlyle presented ________ as the embodiment of the hero as prophet.
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Q6) In what ways did the viewpoint of Romantic writers differ from the rational viewpoint of Enlightenment intellectuals?
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Chapter 20: The Conservative Order and the Challenges of Reform (1815-1832)
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Q1) The Six Acts attempted to ________.
A)curb political dissesnt
B)give the monarchy new powers and begin military expansion
C)raise public revenue through taxes and prohibit illegal search and seizures
D)prevent Catholics from exercising their civil rights
Q2) In 1804,the French colony of ________ achieved independence. A)Cuba
B)Haiti
C)Guiana
D)the Dominican Republic
Q3) Consider Metternich as a source of European reaction.Why did Metternich oppose the recognition of political rights of national groups? Did Metternich view liberalism and nationalism in a positive or a negative light? What were the goals of Metternich and other Austrian officials regarding Austria's role in the newly-formed German Confederation?
Q4) In 1830,the Ottoman sultan formally granted independence to ________,and by the late 1830s,the major powers granted it diplomatic recognition.
Q5) In general,the drive for independence in Latin America came from the ________,who worked as merchants and professional people of Spanish descent.
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Chapter 21: Economic Advance and Social Unrest
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Q1) During the nineteenth century,the domestic division of labor into specific gender patterns prevailed among ________.
A)the working,middle,and upper classes
B)the middle class
C)the gentry
D)the rural poor
Q2) In the domestic system of textile production,hand spinning was performed by ________.
A)women
B)men
C)both men and women
D)unskilled workers
Q3) In 1834,most German states formed a trading union called the _____.
Q4) The decade of the 1820s saw an increase in women working in textile factories.Their new jobs required ________.
A)fewer skills than those required in home-based textile work
B)more skills than those required in home-based textile work
C)more skills than those required for work typically done by men
D)at least a grammar school education
Q5) Why was the failure of the Irish potato crops of the 1840s so devastating?
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Chapter 22: The Age of Nation-States
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Q1) The Hungarians accepted which of the following?
A)the Compromise of 1867
B)the February Patent
C)the October Diploma
D)a federation of states
Q2) What reforms were instituted in Russia from 1855-1881? Did they solve Russia's domestic problems? Why did the abolition of serfdom not satisfy the peasants? What were the goals of The People's Will?
Q3) Bismarck embraced the cause of German nationalism ________.
A)as a strategy to enable Prussian conservatives to outflank Prussian liberals
B)as a means of deterring a French invasion with a growing military force
C)in hopes of supporting a larger population to undergo European dominance
D)as a political move to solicit an Italian ally in a forthcoming war against Austria
Q4) What event(s)demonstrated the Ottoman Empire's inability to regain its former power?
A)the Balkan wars of the late 1870s
B)the Crimean War
C)the Treaty of Paris
D)the issuing of the Hatt-i Sharif of Gülhane
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Chapter 23: The Building of European Supremacy: Society
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Q1) European migration ________ Europe because ________.
A)hurt;it created a labor shortage
B)hurt;it created a brain drain of highly skilled workers
C)shamed;it undercut its image of superiority
D)benefited;it relieved social and population pressures
Q2) The name given to the practice by Russian police and right-wing groups of conducting riots against the Jews was ________.
A)diaspora
B)pogrom
C)ghettos
D)anti-Semitism
Q3) In the nineteenth century,cholera struck ________.
A)the lower class only
B)the lower and middle classes
C)mainly the middle and upper classes
D)all classes
Q4) In the late nineteenth century,the middle and lower classes started seeking housing in ________.
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Q5) Describe the dynamics that influenced prostitution in late-nineteenth-century Europe.
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Chapter 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought
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Q1) What field of science most influenced racial thinking at the end of the nineteenth century?
A)physics
B)biology
C)evolution
D)medicine
Q2) Describe the major characteristics of the Enlightenment and Romantic movement and explain how these concepts influenced the intellectual orientation of the late nineteenth century.
Q3) Late-Victorian anthropologists drew a parallel between women and ________.
A)children
B)nonwhite races
C)unlearned men
D)animals
Q4) The Contagious Diseases Acts in England were designed to ________.
A)reduce disease in British slums
B)wipe out diseases such as cholera,which affected all of society
C)protect men from contracting diseases from prostitutes
D)impose harsh penalties on military men who spread venereal disease
Q5) How did science fiction find immediate acceptance by the popular culture?
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Chapter 25: The Age of Western Imperialism
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Q1) Which country annexed Korea in 1910?
A)China
B)Japan
C)Britain
D)the United States
Q2) To preserve their political power and economic privileges,the white elite of South Africa eventually enforced a policy of racial ________,or "separateness."
Q3) Analyze the scientific areas of research during the nineteenth century,and answer the question: Was scientific research controlled by imperialist motives? Draw on at least one example from botany,zoology,medicine,or anthropology to explain the relationship between science and imperialism during these years.
Q4) Britain retained control of which of these settler colonies in the nineteenth century?
A)Canada
B)New Zealand
C)Australia
D)all of the above
Q5) U.S.support for Cuba's revolt led to the ________.
Q6) British and Russian rivalry over Central Asia ended with ________.
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Chapter 26: Alliances, War, and a Troubled Peace
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Q1) Woodrow Wilson called America's war aims the ________.
Q2) In March 1918,the last German offensive was stopped at ________.
A)Lorraine
B)Normandy
C)the Marne
D)Alsace
Q3) The civil war between the Red Russians and White Russians ended in ________.
A)1921,when the Red Army finally overcame the domestic opposition
B)March 1918,with the acceptance of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
C)December 1917,when Russia signed an armistice with Germany
D)1921,when the Red Russians conceded defeat and signed a peace treaty with the White Russians
Q4) Which of the following eventually brought about the end of the Ottoman Empire?
A)its neutrality at the outbreak of World War I
B)its decision to enter the war on the side of Germany in 1914
C)its decision to enter the war on the side of the Allies in 1914
D)its refusal to participate in the peace settlement in Paris
Q5) The Kingdom of Serbs,Croats,and Slovenes was also known as ________.
Q6) The pro-German ________ overthrew the Ottoman government and had control of the government in 1909.
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Chapter 27: The Interwar Years: the Challenge of Dictators and Depression
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Q1) The outflow of foreign capital from Germany beginning in 1928 undermined a brief prosperity and resulted in an economic crisis ending ________.
A)parliamentary government
B)authoritarian rule
C)free elections
D)the rule of the Social Democrats
Q2) ________ enunciated the doctrine of "socialism in one country."
Q3) Support for Hitler was particularly strong among groups such as ________.
A)farmers,war veterans,and the young
B)merchants,politicians,and the elderly
C)the aristocracy,Calvinists,and the military
D)conservatives,the Roman Catholic Church,and the middle class
Q4) Mussolini's main political goal was ________.
A)implementing fascist ideology
B)survival
C)Bolshevist principles
D)the desire for peace
Q5) The Great Depression began in the year ________.
Q6) In Poland in 1926,________ launched a military coup.
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Chapter 28: World War Ii
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Q1) The majority of the Polish population before the war was ________.
A)Jewish
B)Roman Catholic
C)Muslim
D)Protestant
Q2) Defense against Germany during World War II was known as "The ________" in the Soviet Union.
Q3) Hitler referred to the ________ as Untermenschen.
A)Slavs
B)French
C)English
D)Italians
Q4) By 1943,the German economy ________.
A)produced enough goods to supply occupied Europe
B)met the everyday needs of the people while managing to produce war goods
C)faced serious labor shortages
D)thrived with the increase in military production
Q5) Hitler planned to bring the entire German ________,understood as a racial group,together in a single nation.
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Q6) In 1945,the French formed the ________ Republic.
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29: The Cold War Era, decolonization, and the
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Q1) The "ethnic cleansing" that took place in Bosnia primarily targeted ________.
A)Serbians
B)Croatians
C)Muslims
D)Albanians
Q2) The U.S.and the Soviet Union came closest to outright war during _________.
A)the Berlin blockade
B)the Cuban missile crisis
C)Tehran conference
D)the invasion of Iraq
Q3) The founding of ________ resulted from the British withdrawal from India in 1947.
Q4) In the Brezhnev Doctrine,the Soviet Union ________.
A)was focused on reforming the internal workings of the Soviet government
B)set a policy of Soviet self-containment
C)increased freedom of discussion and other rights in the Soviet Union
D)gave itself the right to interfere in the affairs of other communist countries
Q5) Under President Putin,Russians had ________ political freedom and ________ prosperity.
Q6) In 1957,Fidel Castro took power in Cuba,removing the dictator ________.
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Chapter 30: Social, cultural, and Economic Challenges in the West Through the Present
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Q1) The growing ________ presence in Europe has produced some of the most serious ethnic and political tensions in recent history.
A)Muslim
B)Slavic
C)Jewish
D)Asian
Q2) Compared to 1950,women's working patterns in Europe have changed ________.
A)little
B)substantially
C)radically
D)not at all
Q3) What types of artwork have evolved in post-war society? Compare and contrast the artistic developments of Soviet and American artists.What trends in art have emerged? Where?
Q4) Welfare legislation spread throughout Western Europe in response to ________.
A)promises of full employment and social security by communist states of Eastern Europe
B)protests and demonstrations throughout Western Europe
C)the rise of democratic socialist parties following World War II
D)the election of Margaret Thatcher
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