Modern European History Practice Questions
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Modern European History examines the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in Europe from the late eighteenth century to the present. The course explores the rise and fall of empires, revolutions, nationalism, the evolution of democratic and authoritarian states, the impact of two world wars, the Cold War, European integration, and contemporary challenges. Through the study of significant events, influential figures, and key movements, students gain an understanding of Europes complex transformation and its role in shaping the modern 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) The text refers to which of the following as the most brilliant of Louis XIV's policies?
A) establishing good relations with the church
B) demonstrating the king's magnificence through ritual and architecture
C) dismissal of aristocrats as prominent advisors to the king
D) gaining the confidence and support of the French manufacturers
E) the intendant system
Answer: C
Q2) Which of the following weakened the powerful monarchy of Charles V?
A) the conflict with Protestants.
B) the complexity of administering such a large empire.
C) constant warfare on the continent and in the Mediterranean.
D) lack of domestic industry, the lack of entrepreneurship, and a weak commercial class.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
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Chapter 2: The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism
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Q1) Newton stated that in the essential structure of the universe,matter is A) consistent throughout.
B) lifeless in its essential state.
C) acted upon by immaterial forces.
D) atomic in structure.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q2) Kepler was influenced by his belief
A) inastrology.
B) in the Platonic ideal.
C) thata spiritual force infused the physical order.
D) that the human mind can comprehend harmony and unity through mathematics.
E) all of the above
Answer: E
Q3) Central to the practice of modern science is the experimental method of investigation and testing scientific theories.Who were some of the pioneers of experimental method in the Scientific Revolution,and what were their achievements?
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform
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Q1) All of the following were true of Austria EXCEPT
A) a dynamic, innovative central administration.
B) a concentration on its eastern non-German territories.
C) consolidated control of the German parts of the Holy Roman Empire.
D) acquisition of the southern Netherlands, later called Belgium.
E) a progressive mother-son imperial partnership.
Answer: C
Q2) Immanuel Kant insisted that
A) individuals must conform to knowledge presented by authority.
B) each individual should reason independently.
C) education and critical thought were indispensable for the overthrow of the aristocratic order.
D) there was no conflict between reason and faith.
E) a person should be enlightened by an"inner light."
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) Support or refute the following statement with specific examples from the period 1789 to 1799: the Enlightenment was the cause of the French Revolution.
Q2) Robespierre wrote that terror was necessary to overcome obstacles to the enlightenment of the people caused by
A) France's traditional enemy, the British.
B) traitors and writers who misled the people.
C) officers of the Austrian army who spread propaganda within France.
D) Protestant ministers who attacked Catholicism.
E) the emigrés who secretly returned to France.
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true of the Republic's policy of de-Christianization?
A) Priests were dismissed and church closed in many regions.
B) Churches were stripped of items that could be used to support the war effort.
C) Robespierre was the primary supporter of de-Christianization.
D) The Convention drew up a Republican calendar to replace the Old Christian calendar.
E) The cathedral of Notre Dame hosted a celebration of the goddess Reason.
Q4) Locate and label Corsica,Paris,Moscow,and Elba.
Q5) Concordat of 1801
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Chapter 5: The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation
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Q1) agricultural revolution
Q2) Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?
A) The Industrial Revolution began in Britain.
B) The first country to which the Industrial Revolution spread was the United States.
C) The Industrial Revolution spread to France after the French Revolution.
D) Industrialization began in Germany in the 1840s and became phenomenal in the 1870s.
E) Russia began to industrialize in the 1890s.
Q3) The state in Britain contributed to the Industrial Revolution by
A) passing laws allowing for enclosure of common lands.
B) fostering enterprise that expanded trade routes.
C) revising the electoral system to allow middle-class subjects to vote and thus shape policy.
D) protecting private and intellectual property under the law.
E) all of the above
Q4) limited liability corporation
Q5) After the 1830s or so,the Industrial Revolution required huge infusions of capital.Why was this so,and how was this capital mobilized?
Q6) workhouse
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Chapter 6: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) iron law of wages
Q2) 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.
Q3) conservatism
Q4) French liberal theorist Benjamin Constant warned against the danger of A) absolute monarchy.
B) constitutional monarchy.
C) unlimited popular sovereignty.
D) the political power of the Catholic Church.
E) the state's application of Enlightenment reason.
Q5) Jeremy Bentham wrote that "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters,pain and pleasure.It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do." Explain the responses the following would have to Bentham's statement: Enlightenment philosophes,nineteenth-century liberals,socialists,and conservatives.
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Chapter 7: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848
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Q1) Old Order
Q2) Austria's objective and/or strategy at the Congress of Vienna was to A) restore a balance of power in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.
B) install new rulers responsive to the will of the people.
C) support liberalism and nationalism.
D) foster the political awareness of the middle classes.
E) all of the above
Q3) Identify and explain both the liberal and the nationalist aims which were present during the revolutions of 1848 in Italy.
Q4) ultras
Q5) Which of the following statements is correct?
A) In 1828, Parliament removed certain restrictions against Catholics and Nonconformists.
B) In 1832, the right to vote was extended to the working class.
C) In 1833, the slave trade was abolished in the British Empire.
D) In 1835, the Municipal Corporations Act tightened London's authority over other towns.
E) In 1848, revolution on the continent caused a delay in the passage of a Public Health Act in England.
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Chapter 8: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism and Social Criticism
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Q1) Which of the following statements about Marx is NOTaccurate?
A) Marx's family belonged to the industrial working class.
B) Marx's father had converted to Protestantism from Judaism.
C) Marx briefly edited a newspaper that was shut down by the Prussian government.
D) According to Marx, philosophers wanted to interpret the world, but it is more important to change it.
E) Marx produced extremely influential scholarly works while living in great poverty.
Q2) Which nineteenth-century philosophies contended that there was an underlying meaning to the movement of history? Explain each of them.
Q3) Mikhail Bakunin's revolutionary tactics involved
A) the organization of the workers into mass political parties.
B) the revolt of all oppressed people, including peasants.
C) revolution "from above" through seizure of the central state apparatus.
D) nonviolent protests and civil disobedience.
E) massive petition drives.
Q4) higher criticism
Q5) Explain Marxism and its popularity in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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Chapter 9: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism
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Q1) What factors led to the increase in anti-Semitism in Europe in the nineteenth century,and how was anti-Semitism made manifest in word and deed?
Q2) Count Camillo di Cavour sought to improve Piedmont's image in foreign affairs by strengthening the economy in which of the following ways?
A) reorganizing the currency, taxes, and the national debt
B) building railways and steamships
C) fostering improved agricultural methods
D) encouraging new businesses
E) all of the above
Q3) Houston Stewart Chamberlain's Foundations of the Nineteenth Century argued that the decline of Rome could be attributed to
A) its loss of cultural leadership in the West.
B) its intermixing of races.
C) its failure to incorporate stronger races.
D) its use of the Latin language.
E) its inferior technology compared to the Germanic tribes.
Q4) Mark the boundaries of the German Confederation in 1815.Mark the boundary of the North German Confederation and the boundary of the German Empire.
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Chapter 10: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization
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Q1) Following its invention in 1876,the telephone
A) spread rapidly throughout the industrialized world.
B) was adopted for use by ordinary people in the United States only.
C) was not widely used for another twenty-five years.
D) led to a revolution in naval warfare.
E) came into immediate competition with the radio.
Q2) Which of these is NOT an accomplishment of Russia post-1850?
A) construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
B) end of Serfdom
C) defeat of Japan in the Russo-Japanese War
D) growth of industrialization
E) the flowering of Russian literature and thought
Q3) syndicalism
Q4) The Liberal-Conservative rivalry in British politics
A) led to the extension of the vote to city workers in 1867.
B) resulted in compulsory education.
C) created a significant expansion of suffrage in 1884.
D) was embodied by the rivalry of Gladstone and Disraeli.
E) all of the above
Q5) "second industrial revolution"
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Chapter 11: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance
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Q1) extraterritoriality
Q2) China was forced to open its ports to trade with the West as a result of the A) Taiping Rebellion.
B) White Lotus Rebellion.
C) Boxer Rebellion.
D) Opium War.
E) Sino-French War.
Q3) Among the theories to explain the new imperialism,historians have proposed that A) accelerated economic expansion in the late nineteenth century convinced several European states that new colonies would guarantee sources of raw material and markets for finished goods.
B) slowing European population growth required colonies for countries to continue to prosper.
C) although newly unified states showed no interest in colonies, more established states fueled the desire for colonies.
D) the new imperialism, while important, actually had little impact on contemporary ideas concerning national pride and Great Power status.
E) all of the above
Q4) khedives
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Chapter 12: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human
Nature, and the Arts
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Q1) The text identifies which of the following as the "principal figure in the dethronement of reason"?
A) Nietzsche
B) Schopenhauer
C) Sorel
D) Bergson
E) Freud
Q2) Sorel would NOT agree with which of the following?
A) Violence is an end in itself.
B) Myths are a powerful tool to mobilize the workers.
C) Workers can overthrow the bourgeoisie only through direct action and violence.
D) A general strike would be a cowardly rebellion against bourgeois exploiters.
E) Myths need not be true to be effective.
Q3) Sorel and Nietzsche shared the belief that
A) life is a struggle.
B) bourgeois society was decadent, unheroic, and life-denying.
C) the irrational is central.
D) society must change.
E) all of the above
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Chapter 13: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated on
A) June 28, 1914.
B) July 23, 1914.
C) July 28, 1914.
D) August 4, 1914.
E) September 9, 1914.
Q2) Germany's reaction to the Triple Entente
A) underestimated the hostile nature of the alliance of Russia, Britain, and France.
B) greatly increased the chance for war because it strengthened the link between German security and Austria.
C) indicated a lack of concern of the intentions of the new allies.
D) helped to quell Austria's fear of Pan-Serbism and Pan-Slavism.
E) none of the above
Q3) Treaty of Versailles
Q4) Locate and label the Triple Entente,the Triple Entente,and the Central Powers.
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Chapter 14: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) The text states that Stalin's ultimate motivation was to
A) impose total obedience on the Soviet population in order to effectively modernize the Soviet Union.
B) expand his personal power for the purpose of self-gratification.
C) ignore the threats of foreign powers and concentrate on domestic issues alone.
D) abandonthe cause ofworldwide revolution.
E) all of the above
Q2) The Great Depression included all the following EXCEPT
A) the Stock Market crash when the bubble in stock speculation burst.
B) hyperinflation when money became almost worthless.
C) a chain reaction of business cutbacks and soaring unemployment.
D) a sharp decline of American investment in Europe.
E) Roosevelt's New Deal to stimulate growth through government intervention on the economy.
Q3) Weimar Republic
Q4) Analyze the fundamental concepts of Fascism.
Q5) New Deal
Q6) What challenges and obstacles undermined the Weimar Republic?
Q7) Lateran Accords
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Chapter 15: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism
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Q1) A number of prominent Christian thinkers writing in the wake of World War I argued all of the following EXCEPT
A) there was no evil in human nature.
B) Marxists put too much stock in a secular philosophy of history.
C) the tragedies of the twentieth century resulted froma clash between human will and God's commands.
D) liberals held too high an opinion of human reason.
E) liberals and Marxists erred in believing that an ideal society could be achieved within the realm of historical time.
Q2) existentialism
Q3) Dada
Q4) How did Christian intellectuals grapple with modernity and the crises of the twentieth century?
Q5) How did the continued expansion of bureaucracy,capitalism,and industry contribute to the sense among many intellectuals that modern life lacked meaning?
Q6) "broken world"
Q7) Locate and label the homeland of Dada,Franz Kafka,and Leni Riefenstahl.
Q8) historicists
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Chapter 16: World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) The signing of a nonaggression pact between which states preceded,by one week,the outbreak of hostilities on September 1,1939?
A) Germany and the Soviet Union
B) Germany and Poland
C) France, Britain, and the Soviet Union
D) Britain and Germany
E) Germany and Italy
Q2) Explain how both psychological "traits" and the strength of ideological beliefs contributed to the ease with which the "Final Solution" was implemented in Nazi Germany.
Q3) Popular reaction in Austria to the German Anschluss was
A) passive resistance.
B) the formation of guerrilla resistance groups.
C) the formation of organizations to protect the Jews.
D) enthusiastic demonstrations and attacks on Jews.
E) panic and dismay.
Q4) Explain the basic foreign policy views of Britain,France,and the United States toward Germany in the 1920s.
Q5) appeasement
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Chapter 17: Europe After World War II: Recovery and Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) Reconsider the following quote from Václav Havel:??The worst of it is that we live in a spoiled moral environment.We have become morally ill because we are used to saying one thing and thinking another.We have learned not to believe in anything,not to care about each other,to worry only about ourselves....??This observation was directed toward the Communist system that had just collapsed in Czechoslovakia.But can it also be applied to our own Western society? Reflect upon Havel's observation.
Q2) Stalin's death brought
A) the aborting of a campaign against Jews.
B) an outpouring of grief from many of the people.
C) a feeling of relief among his advisers.
D) a "thaw" that emptied Stalin's forced-labor camps.
E) all of the above
Q3) Iron Curtain
Q4) Locate and label the members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Q5) NATO
Q6) Draw in the boundary changes after World War II.Clearly label each of the changes.
Q7) In what ways did the Cold War,decolonization,and European unity all fundamentally alter the traditions of Western Civilization?
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Chapter 18: The Troubled Present
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Q1) The themes that have shaped politicians of both the Right and the Left in France include
A) a belief in French exceptionalism.
B) the desire for economic equality and equity.
C) a dedication to the ideal of "taking the time to live."
D) the understanding that France is capable of revering its roots while also practicing adaptation.
E) all of the above
Q2) The ethnic conflict in post-Communist Bosnia included all the following EXCEPT A) the prolonged bombardment of the capital, Sarajevo.
B) a struggle among the Serbs, Muslims, and Croats.
C) massive ethnic cleansing, especially of Muslims.
D) language and customs issues; religion had no significance.
E) NATO intervention to stop the fighting.
Q3) Compare and contrastthe policies of Boris Yeltsinand Vladimir Putin.
Q4) What are the essential points of optimism and pessimism for our global age as we move further into the twenty-first century?
Q5) Compare and contrastthe recent rise of anti-Semitism in Europe with historic anti-Semitism.
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