Introduction to Modern Western Civilization Final
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Introduction to Modern Western Civilization explores the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped Western societies from the Renaissance to the present day. The course examines key historical events and movements such as the Reformation, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and major world conflicts, as well as the rise of democratic institutions and ideologies. Students will analyze the transformative ideas, influential figures, and global interactions that defined modern Western civilization, while also considering the challenges and opportunities brought about by modernization, globalization, and social change.
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Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 8th Edition by Jackson J. Spielvogel
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Chapter 1: Reformation and Religious Warfare in the
Sixteenth Century
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Q1) Zwingli's interpretation of the Lord's Supper differed from Luther's in that
A) Luther held to the Catholic belief in transubstantiation.
B) Luther said that the ceremony was totally symbolic.
C) Zwingli said the ceremony was only symbolic and that no real transformation in the bread and wine occurred.
D) Luther claimed the ceremony was only symbolic and that no transformation in the bread and wine occurred.
E) Zwingli held to the belief called consubstantiation.
Answer: C
Q2) The St.Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 involved the massacring of nearly 3,000 Huguenots in Paris.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The concept of a "priesthood of all believers" is associated with the religious reformer, Ignatius Loyola.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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1500-1800
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Q1) Which of the following statements best applies to the economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth century Europe?
A) The joint stock company enabled the raising of spectacular sums of capital for world trading ventures.
B) The early seventeenth century saw a general stagnation in the areas of mining and metallurgy.
C) Technological innovations made the lives of peasants improve dramatically.
D) The population explosion made for urban growth and more social equality in cities.
E) An economic depression occurred because of a lack of specie.
Answer: A
Q2) The European nation that established a settlement at Africa's Cape of Good Hope was
A) Spain.
B) Portugal.
C) England.
D) France.
E) the Dutch Republic.
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: State Building and the Search for Order in the
Seventeenth Century
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Q1) Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, developed the first standing army of conscripts, an army notable for its flexible tactics.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The witchcraft hysteria primarily targeted women.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following groups were particularly susceptible to suspicion during Europe's prolonged witchcraft craze?
A) Outsiders.
B) Young, aggressive men.
C) Members of opposing Christian denominations.
D) Witches.
E) Old women.
Answer: E
Q4) Thirty Years War
Answer: not answered
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Q1) Scientific Method
Q2) Paracelsus
Q3) Descartes believed that the world could be understood by
A) the same principles inherent in mathematical thinking.
B) quiet contemplation and following of the Scriptures.
C) mystical experiences.
D) interpreting dreams and applying that knowledge to our everyday lives.
E) incorporating the mind with the body.
Q4) Scholars devoted to Hermeticism
A) believed that the world was a very recent creation still imperfect.
B) credited the devil with control over the dark secrets of nature.
C) saw the world as a living embodiment of divinity where humans could use mathematics and magic to dominate nature.
D) retreated from study of the natural world to concentrate on mastery of theories of magic.
E) a and d
Q5) Ethics Demonstrated in the Geometrical Manner
Q6) "I think therefore I am"
Q7) Isaac Newton
Q8) Johannes Kepler Page 6
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Chapter 5: The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) The French Physiocrats, in their belief in natural economic laws, were harsh critics of economic mercantilism.
A)True
B)False
Q2) newspapers and libraries
Q3) Denis Diderot was an ardent Christian.
A)True
B)False
Q4) American Philosophical Society
Q5) The eighteenth century English historian, Edward Gibbon, blamed the downfall of ancient Rome on the pagan religion practices and sexual excesses of the Roman Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws
Q7) Franz Joseph Haydn
Q8) Antoine Watteau
Q9) George Frederick Handel
Q10) Immanuel Kant Page 8
Q11) Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
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Chapter 6: The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change
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Q1) Seven Years' War
Q2) Emelyan Pugachev
Q3) Maria Theresa
Q4) The special legal privileges of the European nobility included all of the following except:
A) judgment by peers.
B) immunity from severe punishment.
C) exemptions from most forms of taxation.
D) guarantees against becoming poor.
E) access to military and civil offices.
Q5) European diplomacy during the eighteenth century was predicated on the idea that A) sea power was the basis of real power.
B) in a balance of power, one state should not achieve dominance over another.
C) a country's empire determined its greatness.
D) the charisma of a ruler determined a country's success in foreign policy.
E) the largest army always wins.
Q6) "the first servant of the state"
Q7) John Law's "bubble"
Q8) Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji Page 10
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Chapter 7: A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution
and Napoleon
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Q1) Girondins and the Mountain
Q2) Thermidorean Reaction
Q3) Which of the following statements best applies to Napoleon?
A) He was both a child of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
B) He had a sense of moral responsibility to the people of France.
C) He advocated an invasion of Britain in the 1790s.
D) He was born the son of a Parisian merchant.
E) He was a successful military general but had to talent for civil administration and reform.
Q4) A successful slave rebellion against French rule occurred in A) the Vendee.
B) Batavia.
C) Jamaica.
D) Haiti.
E) the Cameroons.
Q5) Because of the dedicated activities of such women as Olympe de Gouges, in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, women received the same rights as men.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society
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Q1) The Chartists in England wanted to
A) break machines and burn factories.
B) make Parliament more democratic.
C) overthrow capitalism through revolution.
D) chart the expenditures of government money.
E) strengthen labor unions.
Q2) canals
Q3) Robert Owen
Q4) domestic servants
Q5) trade unions
Q6) joint-stock companies
Q7) Britain's Great Exhibition of 1851 was held
A) ironically, in New York City.
B) at Kensington Palace.
C) in the newly built Crystal Palace.
D) at scattered locations across England and Wales.
E) in the basement of Parliament.
Q8) child labor
Q9) Great Exhibition of 1851 Page 13
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Chapter 9: Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism,
1815-1850
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Q1) John Stuart Mill
Q2) The literary model for early Romantics was
A) The Last Days of Socrates, by Plato.
B) Don Quixote, by Cervantes.
C) Great Expectations, by Dickens.
D) The Sorrows of the Young Werther, by Goethe.
E) Reflections, by Edmund Burke.
Q3) Corn Laws and the Peterloo Massacre
Q4) Latin America revolts
Q5) What might be political romanticism? Define it and give examples from the first half of the nineteenth century.
Q6) Compare the revolutions of Latin America to the revolutions of Europe during the early to middle decades of the nineteenth century.
Q7) Robert Owen's New Lanark
Q8) revolutions of 1848
Q9) Chateaubriand's Genius of Christianity
Q10) the congress system
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Q11)
Q12) Concert of Europe
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Chapter 10: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871
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Q1) Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification, A) instituted the Zollverein, the German customs union that drove industrial development.
B) followed a rigid plan for national unification at all costs.
C) was a liberal from lower class origins who used politics to achieve his reform goals.
D) practiced Realpolitik in conducting domestic and foreign policy.
E) relied upon the diplomatic and military support of the Habsburgs in the Austro-Prussian War.
Q2) Auguste Comte and "positive knowledge"
Q3) The Ausgleich of 1867, gave the all the various nationalities making up the Austrian Empire equal rights and status with the German-speaking Austrians.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Dmitri Mendeleyev
Q5) zemstvos
Q6) Zollverein
Q7) Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone
Q8) Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Red Shirts
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Chapter 11: Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894
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Q1) Coney Island and Blackpool
Q2) Russification
Q3) Spanish-American War
Q4) Which one of the following did not account for the increasing population in Europe between 1850 and 1880?
A) a rising birthrate
B) the development of vaccinations
C) the eradication of polio
D) improved elimination of sewage
E) improved nutrition
Q5) General Georges Boulanger
Q6) What do we mean by the phrase "mass society" and how was the growth of this mass society related to changes in the urban environment?
Q7) By 1912, what was the single largest political party in Germany?
A) NAZIS.
B) Greens.
C) Social Democrats.
D) Bolsheviks.
E) Mensheviks.
Q8) Eduard Bernstein
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Q1) Boxer Rebellion
Q2) At its premier, Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, now considered as a classic example of modernism in music and ballet,
A) drew great public acclaim as a modern masterwork.
B) inspired many authors to write poems using the music.
C) caused a riot by the audience because of its sharp dissonance and blatant sensuality.
D) restored audiences' faith in music as a rational and soothing art.
E) was ignored when first performed and only became recognized as a classic several decades later
Q3) Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis
Q4) Triple Alliance
Q5) "Bloody Sunday"
Q6) The Boxers in China were successful in limiting the influence of the European nations and Japan.
A)True
B)False
Q7) the "new woman"
Q8) Triple Entente
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Chapter 13: The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis:
War and Revolution
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Q1) How did the Russian Revolution alter the dynamics of European statecraft and policy during the waning months of the war and into the time of the Paris Peace Conference?
Q2) Ireland's Easter Rebellion
Q3) As a result of World War I, Eastern Europe
A) experienced little or no real change.
B) fell subject to the new Russian communist state.
C) witnessed the emergence of many new nation-states.
D) quickly overtook western Europe economically.
E) sunk into widespread international anarchy and chaos.
Q4) Yugoslavia
Q5) What goals did the warring nations of Europe have as they entered the war, and did those goals change as the war progressed?
Q6) The women workers of World War I played an important role in
A) serving as support troops behind the front line trenches.
B) gaining equal industrial wages with men by the end of the war.
C) achieving permanent job security in the once male-dominated workplace.
D) all work areas except the textile industry.
E) gaining women the right to vote immediately following the war.
Q7) Georges Clemenceau
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Chapter 14: The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between
the Wars, 1919-1939
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Q1) The two Western nations most affected by the Great Depression were
A) Germany and France
B) France and Sweden
C) the United States and Great Britain
D) Germany and Belgium
E) Germany and the United States
Q2) The United States joined the League of Nations but refused to abide by its decisions and so had its membership revoked in 1922.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Nazis proved to be effective in the realm of politics by
A) securing many small donations from large German corporations.
B) making the Nazi program appeal to every segment of German society.
C) persuading the average German that their program was the only alternative to the inept Weimar regime.
D) forcing the poorer Germans to vote for Nazi candidates through intimidation.
E) unconstitutionally seizing power by force.
Q4) Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf
Q5) "Germany Awake"
Q6) Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius
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Chapter 15: The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War
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Q2) Aryans
Q3) In 1946, the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, declared that finally there would be "peace for our time."
A)True
B)False
Q4) The nation that experienced the greatest losses in World War II was
A) the Soviet Union.
B) Nazi German.
C) the United States.
D) Great Britain.
E) France.
Q5) When and why did the initiative in World War II pass out of Germany's hands?
Q6) Immediately following the fall of Poland
A) France and Britain declared war and started an offensive against Germany.
B) France and Britain decided to continue to appease Hitler.
C) France and Britain declared war, but remained relatively inactive militarily.
D) Germany turned on its Russian allies.
E) France was invaded by Franco's Spain.
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Chapter 16: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965
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Q1) Compare and contrast the political, social, and economic histories of Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the Post-War decades.
Q2) the superpowers
Q3) Yugoslavia from World War II through the 1960 was characterized by A) its close alliance with the West in the Cold War. B) a strict adherence to Stalinist-style Communism.
C) the leadership of Tito, who asserted Yugoslavia's independence from the Soviet Union. D) its adoption of a Maoist rather than the Stalinist model of communism.
E) its complete rejection of Marxian economics.
Q4) The first area of conflict in the unfolding of the Cold War was A) Scandinavia.
B) Western Europe.
C) North Africa.
D) Eastern Europe.
E) East Asia.
Q5) Indian National Congress
Q6) Martin Luther King and "white backlash"
Q7) Vietnam War
Q8) Mao Zedong
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Chapter 17: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985
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Q1) A fundamental critique of the destructive nature of Big Science and modern technology was offered in Small is Beautiful written by
A) Robert Oppenheimer.
B) E.F.Schumacher.
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein.
D) Michael Goric.
E) George Soros.
Q2) Jacques Derrida and deconstructionism
Q3) détente
Q4) Between 1965 and 1985, did new technologies and new scientific discoveries do more to benefit or to harm the planet and its inhabitants?
Q5) Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach
Q6) East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker
Q7) Would it be accurate to say that all, or at least most, of the popular culture of this period was Postmodern?
Q8) Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Q9) the space race and Sputnik
Q10) Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972 Page 27
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Chapter 18: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age
Since 1985
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Q1) multiculturalism
Q2) Vladimir Putin
Q3) In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in A) Iraq.
B) the Persian Gulf.
C) Iran.
D) Pakistan.
E) Afghanistan.
Q4) In the 2000, U.S.presidential elections George W.Bush won both the popular and the electoral votes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) All of the following led to decline in George W.Bush's popularity by his second term as president except
A) his strong support for environmental programs that were opposed by major business interests.
B) the war in Iraq.
C) tax cuts that primarily benefitted the wealthy.
D) poor handling of the relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
E) financial corruption in the Republican Party.
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