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Modern Western Civilization explores the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments that have shaped the Western world from the Renaissance to the present. The course examines the impact of key events such as the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the rise and fall of empires, global conflicts, and the evolution of democratic institutions. Students will analyze influential figures, ideologies, and movements, gaining a deeper understanding of how history has influenced contemporary Western society and its global interactions.
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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) In hisInstructions for the Dauphin,Louis XIV claimed that successful kingship lies in A) Christian piety.
B) being informed of everything.
C) the pursuit of peace.
D) ensuring a prosperous peasantry.
E) religious toleration.
Answer: B
Q2) Although the differences between Russia and the West were immense,the political arrangement in Russia resembled somewhat that in A) France.
B) Austria.
C) United Provinces.
D) Prussia.
E) England.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: The Scientific Revolution: the Universe Seen As a Mechanism
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Q1) Copernicus initiated studies that led to his revolutionary theories because
A) there was a need to reform the Christian calendar.
B) his father superior instructed him to do so.
C) he wanted to refute some Protestant theories.
D) a colleague had challenged him when he was teaching at the University of Paris.
E) spiritual crises had plagued him all his life, as they have most men of genius
Answer: A
Q2) How did Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations undermine the Ptolemaic model of the universe?
A) They demonstrated that Jupiter had moons.
B) They demonstrated the existence of yet undiscovered planets beyond Saturn whose gravity was influencing the known planets.
C) They demonstrated that the comet of 1577 needed to have passed right through the crystalline spheres postulated by the Ptolemaic model.
D) They demonstrated that the planets must have circular orbits.
E) They demonstrated that planetary motion was elliptical not circular.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Age of Enlightenment: Reason and Reform
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Q1) Cesare Beccaria advocated a justice system that
A) sought to rehabilitate the criminal.
B) was integrated with the church.
C) did not take into account the causes of crime.
D) linked crime and sin together.
E) all of the above
Answer: A
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) The National Assembly enacted which of the following policies concerning religion?
A) the Civil Constitution of the Clergy
B) laws confining the Jews to ghettos
C) anti-Protestant legislation
D) de-Christianization of state and society
E) all of the above
Q2) Locate and labelthe approximate areas where prorevolutionary and antirevolutionary forces waged war.
Q3) In 1814,Napoleon was exiled to
A) his native Corsica.
B) the Island of Saint Helena.
C) the Island of Elba.
D) Haiti.
E) Madagascar.
Q4) the law of the maximum
Q5) Analyze the slogan "Liberty,Equality,Fraternity,or Death." To what extent was the slogan a good indicator of the realities of the French Revolution?
Q6) nobles of the sword
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Chapter 5: The Industrial Revolution: the Great Transformation
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Q1) mutual aid societies
Q2) The machine identified in the text as fostering slavery was the A) spinning jenny.
B) spinning mule.
C) cotton gin.
D) power loom.
E) McCormick reaper.
Q3) Discuss some of the main economic problems facing the new industrial working class.How did governments respond when workers protested?
Q4) After the 1830s or so,the Industrial Revolution required huge infusions of capital.Why was this so,and how was this capital mobilized?
Q5) To improve working class conditions in the nineteenth century
A) governments passed legislation that gradually shortened the workday from sixteen to ten hours.
B) French and German governments established and ran state schools.
C) legislation limited the employment of children.
D) poor relief included prison-like workhouses.
E) all of the above
Q6) urbanization
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Chapter 6: Thought and Culture in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Robert Owen believed that the best society would be one in which
A) business owners took care of their workers' need and provided them with decent work, decent housing, and decent education.
B) the state was the chief employer to ensure economic justice.
C) churches actually lived according to the Christian principles of love thy neighbor and serve God, not money.
D) there was no distinction between worker and owner.
E) a person had a choice of belonging to a harmonious paternalistic community or competing in a free market.
Q2) Romanticism
Q3) Étienne Condillac and other Enlightenment theorists of drama and poetry believed that
A) good drama and poetry were composed according to strict rules.
B) for drama and poetry to progress, they had to break with classical Greek and Roman models.
C) the individual artist should follow his or her imagination.
D) only aristocrats could compose truly great poetry and drama.
E) poetry had to plunge us into "the original chaos of human nature."
Q4) iron law of wages
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Chapter 7: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1815-1848
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Q1) It has been said that the delegates to the Congress of Vienna produced long-lasting results because they acted according to rational principles rather than acting according to popular emotions.Do you agree? Support your conclusion.
Q2) How did the June Revolution differ from previous revolts and prefigure some twentieth century revolutions?
A) It was a working class revolt led by a conspiracy of professional revolutionaries.
B) The June Revolution was a respectable revolution of the middle class to defend its interests against the lower classes.
C) It was a peaceful realignment of political parties in the parliament that made possible the passage of radical legislation.
D) The June Revolution was a working class revolt intended to redistribute the country's wealth and eliminate poverty.
E) It was a working class revolt that required foreign intervention to preserve the status quo.
Q3) national workshops
Q4) Czech renaissance
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Chapter 8: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century: Realism and Social Criticism
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Q1) Social Darwinists in the nineteenth century argued
A) the same laws of nature that result in evolution as described by Darwin apply to human societies.
B) the fittest were the hardworking factory laborers, whose efforts showed their biological superiority.
C) economic failure was the result of the environment, not wickedness or biological weakness.
D) more advanced people have a natural duty to care for less advanced people.
E) the natural evolution of humanity has made cooperation and compassion into characteristics that increase the species' chances of survival.
Q2) Historians would agree that Social Darwinism
A) led some to believe that the extinction of so-called "inferior races" was a good thing.
B) contended that through evolution, states would eventually eliminate war.
C) applauded the cosmopolitanism of the philosophes.
D) continued Enlightenment traditions.
E) had very limited consequences.
Q3) dialectical materialism
Q4) positivism
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Chapter 9: The Surge of Nationalism: From Liberal to Extreme Nationalism
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Q1) How and why did extreme nationalism offer ordinary Europeans a sense of certainty in a time of social turmoil and economic dislocation?
Q2) extreme nationalism
Q3) The Settlement of 1867 succeeded in
A) pacifying the Czechs.
B) granting Poles autonomy in Galicia.
C) removing the Hapsburgs from control of Hungary.
D) giving Hungary complete control over its internal affairs.
E) reestablishing Austrian influence among German states after its defeat in the Seven Weeks' War.
Q4) Volkish thought
Q5) Giuseppe Garibaldi's convictions and accomplishments include all the following EXCEPT
A) women's equality, workers' rights, end to the death penalty, and liberation of all subjugated nations.
B) effective leadership of a popular uprising.
C) armed liberation of Sicily and a bloodless takeover of Naples.
D) a surprisingly easy conquest of Rome.
E) the subordination of his own personal ambitions to the needs of Italy.
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Chapter 10: The Industrial West: Responses to Modernization
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Q1) Communards
Q2) What message did the Paris Commune have for socialist radicals beyond France? How did they respond?
Q3) Which of the following is NOT true of the U.S.government?
A) It encouraged free enterprise.
B) It fostered railroad building.
C) It allowed free immigration.
D) It regulated tariffs.
E) It provided social legislation similar to that of Bismarck's Germany.
Q4) Which generalization about urbanization in the late nineteenth century is NOT accurate?
A) In rapidly developing countries, cities tended to integrate ethnic minorities into the country's dominant ethnic group.
B) New professional social workers, city planners, and transportation and sanitation engineers replaced civic-minded volunteers.
C) Sanitation, public order, and public transportation improved significantly.
D) Urban populations yearned for the idyllic lifestyle of the countryside.
E) Education, the press, and patriotic campaigns made city dwellers into loyal citizens.
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Chapter 11: Imperialism: Western Global Dominance
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Q1) All of the following is true about the French and Indochina EXCEPT
A) France fought China in the 1880s to acquire what today is Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
B) the French parliament disapproved of the conquest and threw out the government responsible for it.
C) France used Indochina to expand into Siam (Thailand).
D) Indochina and France conducted very little trade.
E) France as a whole was indifferent to events in Indochina.
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) "White Man's Burden"
Q4) colonialism
Q5) khedives
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Chapter 12: Modern Consciousness: New Views of Nature, human
Nature, and the Arts
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Q1) Who discovered X-rays?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Werner Heisenberg
C) Max Planck
D) Wilhelm Roentgen
E) Marie Sklodowska Curie
Q2) Nietzsche's overman or superman
A) acknowledges the impossibility of finding value and self-perfection and thus triumphs over modernity.
B) is a hero who fiercely loves life, asserts his instincts, and seeks power.
C) is the blond German Aryan superior in every respect to the Untermenschen or subhumans.
D) is democratic and believes in the power of the people to make change.
E) understands transcendent and metaphysical truths in ways that no one else can.
Q3) the idand the ego
Q4) Define irrationalism,and use specific evidence and examples to demonstrate its presence in Western culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Q5) free association
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Chapter 13: World War I: the West in Despair
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Q1) In 1911,German writer Friedrich von Bernhardi argued all of the following EXCEPT
A) war can be excluded from international relations among "civilized races."
B) war is a biological necessity.
C) struggle is a universal law of nature.
D) flourishing nations require continual expansion.
E) "higher civilization" imbues the right to annex the lands of the "uncivilized."
Q2) What incident or development resulted in the entry of the United States into World War I?
A) The sinking of the liner Lusitania had resulted in substantial loss of American lives.
B) With the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Wilson feared that the remaining Allies would not be able to continue the war.
C) Anti-German sentiment in the United States, fomented by the British, forced Wilson to declare war on Germany and her allies.
D) Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917.
E) During the mutiny of its army, France asked for American aid; the United States, still grateful for French help in the War of Independence, quickly responded.
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Chapter 14: An Era of Totalitarianism
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Q1) Trace the major restructuring of the economy that was implemented in the Soviet Union between 1920 and 1940.In what ways did they represent the rejection of Marxist thought?
Q2) The Comintern was all the following EXCEPT
A) Lenin's political tool for world revolution.
B) also known as the Communist International.
C) an attempt to organize Communist parties or parties sympathetic to the Communists in the world.
D) the basis of the Gulag, the future system of forced labor camps.
E) made other Communist parties into agents of the Soviet Union.
Q3) Which of the following would NOTbe an example of socialist realism?
A) official cheerfulness and excitement about the emergence of socialism
B) eradication of remnants of bourgeois tastes or mentality
C) music depicting the wise father and leader, Stalin
D) graphic portrayal of the social problems left to solve
E) happy workers falling in love while building a new society
Q4) Lateran Accords
Q5) Weimar Republic
Q6) corporative system
Q7) collectivization
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Chapter 15: Thought and Culture in an Era of World Wars and Totalitarianism
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Q1) surrealists
Q2) How did some intellectuals defend rationalism,freedom,and the Enlightenment traditionin the interwar period?
Q3) Albert Camus faced the absurdity of existence and discovered that
A) nihilism is the only honest response.
B) it is a God-given opportunity for a leap of faith.
C) human fraternity and human dignity are the only worthwhile responses.
D) each person seeks power, therefore, happiness is the conscious acquisition of power.
E) life is consciousness, therefore, a higher consciousness should be the goal of life.
Q4) Twentieth-century existentialists drew from Friedrich Nietzsche the notion that A) philosophic systems are projections of one's being, they do not have independent existence outside of people.
B) religion does not provide truth.
C) to overcome nothingness, a person must define life for himself.
D) people must create meaning.
E) all of the above
Q5) "life-philosophy"
Q6) mass-man
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Chapter 16: World War Ii: Western Civilization in the Balance
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Q1) The story of the Anschluss does NOT include which of the following?
A) The Treaty of Versailles explicitly forbids an Anschluss.
B) The Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg defended Austrian independence and resisted pressure from Austrian Nazis.
C) Schuschnigg resigned after France and Britain informed him that they would not help in the event of a German invasion.
D) Austrian Nazis took over the government, and German troops moved in on March 13, 1938.
E) The Austrians offered significant opposition to the invasion and the annexation.
Q2) The Vichy government of France led by Marshall Pétain,a war hero from World WarI
A) had no real domestic support base.
B) was dominated by Communists.
C) had the support of many French who were anti-democratic, anti-Marxist, and anti-Semitic.
D) relied largely on support in the city of Paris.
E) did not actively cooperate with the Nazis.
Q3) Anschluss
Q4) Maginot Line
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Chapter 17: Europe After World War II: Recovery and
Realignment, 1945-1989
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Q1) 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
Q2) By 2009,social welfare spending in France consumed what percent of the GDP?
A) 10 percent
B) 20 percent
C) 30 percent
D) 40 percent
E) 50 percent
Q3) The "Polish October" demonstrated that
A) the Polish capitalists could be easily threatened by Moscow.
B) the Polish people had not lost their traditional values and sense of independence.
C) Poles would fight for the freedom of their bishops.
D) reform of a Communist system was impossible.
E) the Soviet Union would not tolerate any deviation from the Soviet line.
Q4) Cold War
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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) Compare and contrastthe recent rise of anti-Semitism in Europe with historic anti-Semitism.
Q3) "Arab Spring"
Q4) How did the massacre at Srebrenica force Western countries to reconsider its policy toward the Balkans?
Q5) Popular protests against autocratic rules in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 took place in A) Tunisia.
B) Egypt.
C) Syria.
D) Jordan.
E) all of the above
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