Western Civilization I Exam Solutions
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Western Civilization I offers a comprehensive survey of the major political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that shaped the Western world from the origins of ancient civilizations through the Middle Ages. The course examines significant events, movements, and figures in ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, as well as the evolution of early Christian and medieval European societies. Students will explore key themes such as democracy, philosophy, religion, and the formation of state institutions, providing insight into the foundations of modern Western thought and society.
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The Western Experience 10th Edition by Mortimer Chambers
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Chapter 1: The First Civilizations
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Darius. Answer: Darius was a king of the Persian Empire who ruled from 522 to 486 BCE. He is best known for his administrative reforms and for expanding the empire to its greatest extent. Darius also organized the empire into provinces, each with its own governor, and established a system of standardized coinage. He is also known for his construction projects, including the building of the royal city of Persepolis.
Darius is significant because he was a key figure in the expansion and organization of the Persian Empire, which became one of the largest and most powerful empires in ancient history. His administrative reforms and construction projects helped to solidify the empire's power and influence. Additionally, Darius' reign marked a period of relative stability and prosperity for the Persian Empire. His legacy as a capable and effective ruler has had a lasting impact on the history of the ancient world.
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Chapter 2: The Forming of Greek Civilizations
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Q1) The Peloponnesian War was fought from
A)431 to 404 B.C.
B)451 to 444 B.C.
C)499 to 479 B.C.
D)404 to 390 B.C.
E)450 to 429 B.C.
Answer: A
Q2) Sparta's "mixed constitution" included
A)kings, an oligarchic council, and a public assembly.
B)shared rule between elite citizens and the king.
C)elected kings responsible to a powerful citizen assembly.
D)a council of elders who chose citizens to serve as advisers for a year.
E)the elimination of the monarchy.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Classical and Hellenistic Greece
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Q1) In comparison with the world of the polis, Hellenistic civilization was
A)less wealthy.
B)marked by a more equitable distribution of wealth.
C)characterized by economic activity on a larger scale.
D)hampered in trade relations by lack of a common language.
E)characterized by a return to small-scale economic activities.
Answer: C
Q2) The comedies of Aristophanes
A)avoided criticizing major political figures in Athens.
B)involved fantasy and escapism from contemporary problems.
C)often revealed his antiwar sentiments.
D)offer little insight to contemporary Athenian life.
E)depicted influential Athenian citizens in a flattering light.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The Roman Republic
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Q1) Consider the statue of General Cornelius Sulla shown in this chapter.Why would Romans portray the general as a classical orator and dignified statesmen?
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: publicani.
Q3) Review the feature entitled "The Murder of Julius Caesar" in this chapter.Explain the symbolic significance of the statue of Pompey in this account.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Gallic War.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Julius Caesar.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Carthage.
Q7) Rome controlled all the Italian peninsula except the Po valley by
A)390 B.C.
B)300 B.C.
C)265 B.C.
D)197 B.C.
E)238 B.C.
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: First Triumvirate.
Q9) How did Augustus Caesar (27 B.C.-14 A.D.) use the forms of Republican government to create an imperial government?
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Chapter 5: The Empire and Christianity
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Q1) How does map 5.2 reveal the engineering and architectural sophistication of ancient Rome? What provisions for commercial success and social pleasures can you find?
Q2) Which of the following is NOT true of the military during the Julio-Claudian period?
A)The military interfered more and more with civil authority.
B)The military supported their own candidates for emperor.
C)The military became increasingly subject to the emperor's wishes.
D)The military became increasingly subject to the dictates of the Senate.
E)The military played a part in the succession of emperors.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: The City of God.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Pharisees.
Q5) Which of the following is NOT a correct match?
A)St.Paul: inclusion of gentiles in the Christian religion
B)St.Ambrose: assertion that emperors control the church
C)St.Jerome: translation of the Old and New Testaments into the Latin version of the Bible called the Vulgate
D)St.Augustine: argument that humans are predestined to salvation or damnation
E)Eusebius: a history of the church
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Donatus.
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Chapter 6: The Making of Western Europe
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Q1) The Franks eventually became rulers of A)Frisia.
B)Byzantium.
C)Italy.
D)Iberia.
E)northern Gaul.
Q2) What roles did the Church play in the restructuring of the Germanic kingdoms?
Q3) Gregory I provides an excellent example of A)Germanic kingship.
B)the difficulties encountered by the Frankish custom of partible inheritance.
C)a successful missionary among pagans.
D)the growth of papal primacy in the West.
E)the decline of the Roman Empire in the West.
Q4) Many of the German tribes practiced what religion before converting to Roman Christianity?
A)Arian Christianity
B)Catholic Christianity
C)Eastern (or Orthodox) Christianity
D)Nestorianism
E)Monophysite Christianity
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Creation and Erosion
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Q1) One of the primary goals of Charlemagne was to
A)be crowned Emperor.
B)conquer Anglo-Saxon England.
C)encourage learning within his domains.
D)regain the Holy Land from the Muslims.
E)leave his domains to one heir to create what might have resembled a modern state.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: denarius.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: guilds.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Carolingian Renaissance.
Q5) Review the "Einhard on Charlemagne" feature in this chapter.In what ways did Charlemagne himself embody the cultural flowering that he initiated and encouraged?
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Heraclius.
Q7) Compare methods of military expansion and defense in the Arabic, Byzantine, and Carolingian empires.
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Mecca.
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Q9) From map 7.5, how does the shallow draft of Viking warships explain the paths of their invasions?
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Chapter 8: Restoration of an Ordered Society
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Q1) Review the feature entitled "Gregory VII's Letter to the German Nobility after Canossa" in this chapter.Why would Henry IV subject himself to Gregory VII in order to return "into the favor of communion" of the Church?
Q2) What factors led to the expansion of trade and re-urbanization of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries?
Q3) Contrast urban and rural life in the age of feudalism.Which offered more security? Which offered more opportunities?
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: feudalism.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: glebe land.
Q6) How does the Investiture Controversy reflect both papal reform and the growth of feudal principalities?
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: boon work.
Q8) Review the feature entitled "Gregory VII's Letter to the German Nobility after Canossa" in this chapter.Why would Gregory VII have a "hard heart" against Henry IV?
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Alexius Comnenus.
Q10) Consider the illustrations of the crusades depicted in this chapter.How are the crusaders portrayed? What do you think the role of women might have been in the crusades?
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Chapter 9: The Flowering of Medieval Civilization
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Héloïse.
Q2) Review the feature entitled "The Techniques of the Inquisition" in this chapter.What appears to be the heresy, or error, of the individual charged in this document?
Q3) Under Philip II Augustus,
A)the central administration of France became more efficient and specialized.
B)the Kingdom of France expanded rapidly through conquest.
C)justices-in-eyre extended the king's authority in the Île-de-France.
D)the Common Law became synonymous with the king's law.
E)the French army suffered a humiliating defeat by John of England, ending French claims to the English crown.
Q4) The Fourth Lateran Council provides evidence for
A)the efforts of Innocent III to address the problems confronting the Church
B)conciliarism in determining ecclesiastical authority
C)the demise of the Holy Roman Empire
D)the use of the Inquisition to combat heresy
E)the claims of papal authority over the authority of kings
Q5) Why do you think so many people found heretical movements appealing in the High Middle Ages? Include social, economic, and political reasons as well as religious and spiritual ones in your answer.
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Chapter 10: The Urban Economy and the Consolidation of States
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Q1) The Unam Sanctam of Boniface VIII
A)declared Philip IV must submit to Edward I.
B)recognized transubstantiation as the one and true nature of the sacrament of the Eucharist.
C)forbid all clergy to make payments to kings without papal approval.
D)damned Philip IV unless he submitted to papal authority.
E)declared the Roman Church the only true church and thus made the schism with the Greek Orthodox Church formal and final.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Michael VIII Palaeologus.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: House of Commons.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: House of Lords.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: the Golden Horde.
Q6) How would you evaluate the papacy's strength in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: William of Ockham.
Q8) How do the illustrations depicted throughout this chapter reveal the transformations taking place in production and commerce during the High Middle Ages?
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Chapter 11: Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague
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Q1) Which of the following does NOT accurately describe women's experiences in the Middle Ages?
A)Women recovered more quickly than men from the plague and other diseases.
B)The population of women shrank in this period.
C)Some historians consider this period a golden age for women.
D)More women found work in urban centers.
E)Women remained marginalized from political life in guilds and governments.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Q3) The Ciompi was an example of
A)peasant revolts in Italy and Spain.
B)urban unrest in Flanders.
C)the Jacquerie Revolt in France.
D)urban class tensions.
E)attempts by the nobility to reinstate serfdom.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Henry De Vick.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Gascony.
Q6) How did the Black Death contribute to the socioeconomic causes that motivated peasants to revolt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: the Black Prince.
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Chapter 12: Tradition and Change in European Culture,
1300-1500
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Marsilius of Padua.
Q2) The Florentine Neoplatonists
A)believed that Platonic thought contradicted Christian thought.
B)believed that Platonic philosophy and Christian belief were reconcilable parts of a single truth.
C)were encouraged by the papacy to continue their studies.
D)emphasized the equality of all beings in God's universe.
E)rejected the pursuit of human perfection.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Pico.
Q4) Which of the following is most accurate concerning the culture of northern Europe during the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
A)Merchants were the greatest art patrons of the era.
B)The Church had lost its role in stimulating great art.
C)Princely courts dominated culture during this period.
D)Literate laymen had no real influence on cultural life.
E)Dense urban areas stimulated shifts in culture.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Humanism.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Raphael.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Ockham's razor.
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Chapter 13: Reformations in Religion
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Q1) How did women react to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation? What appeal would the reforming tendencies have held for women? Why do you suppose other women remained faithful to the Catholic Church?
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Geneva.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: veillée.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: John Calvin.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Savonarola.
Q6) Conflict between Catholic and Protestant princes in the Holy Roman Empire was finally resolved by
A)destruction of the last Protestant army and exile of all Protestants to the extreme north.
B)defeat of the emperor's forces and emigration of most Catholics to Italy and France.
C)a compromise that allowed each prince to determine the religion of his own territory.
D)a compromise that allowed for the majority of the population of each territory to determine its religion.
E)the ninety-five theses.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: St.Teresa.
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Chapter 14: Economic Expansion and a New Politics
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Q1) England's Parliament gained importance and prestige during the reign of Henry VIII at the same time that monarchical power reached new heights.Show how these two apparently contradictory developments occurred and discuss the relationship that developed between the two branches of government.
Q2) Consider the picture of a slave ship found in this chapter.Why did the conditions of the slave ship create such a high mortality rate during the journey?
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Moriscos.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Isabella.
Q5) How did the practice of international diplomacy begin to change in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Francisco Pizzaro.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Incas.
Q8) Referring to map 14.1, how were both Spain and Portugal ideally situated to take advantage of improvements in trans-oceanic shipbuilding and navigation?
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Louis XI.
Q10) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: gentry.
Q11) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Henry VIII.
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Chapter 15: War and Crisis
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Ferdinand.
Q2) Elizabeth I
A)never married.
B)tolerated religious dissent.
C)executed Mary Queen of Scots.
D)never married, and executed Mary Queen of Scots
E)All these answers are correct.
Q3) What devices are used in the portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England shown in this chapter to suggest both femininity and royal authority?
Q4) Mercantilist theory argued that
A)a nation should import more than it exports.
B)only a strong centralized government could guide a country to prosperity and order.
C)countries should avoid war since it was harmful to the economy.
D)countries should import food products and export manufactured goods.
E)all nations could become wealthier without sacrificing the prosperity of others.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Louis XIII.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Elizabeth I.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Mazarin.
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Chapter 16: Culture and Society in the Age of the Scientific Revolution
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Shakespeare.
Q2) Which idea is associated with Copernicus?
A)The orbits of the planets are circles.
B)The orbits of the planets are ellipses.
C)Jupiter has three moons.
D)The earth rotates around the sun.
E)The planets are attached to transparent spheres.
Q3) Consider the paintings seen in this chapter by Caravaggio, Rubens, and Gentileschi.What makes these paintings extraordinary examples of the Baroque style?
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Kepler.
Q5) How are women portrayed in the woodcut found in this chapter?
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Poussin.
Q7) With the growth of larger political states and the discoveries of the new science, were seventeenth-century Europeans losing their faith in the Christian God? What evidence do you find that this was, or was not, the case?
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: El Greco.
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Bernini.
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Q11) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Baroque.
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Chapter 17: The Emergence of the European State System
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Louis XIV.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Glorious Revolution.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Leopold I.
Q4) Review the Historical Issues feature entitled "Two Views of Louis XIV" in this chapter.Are these views of Louis XIV incompatible? Can you find a way to reconcile these views?
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Hohenzollerns.
Q6) How did Frederick II use security as a justification for absolutism? Do you think his argument was valid?
Q7) Compared to other absolute monarchs, the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia
A)fostered a close relationship between the military and state administration.
B)consulted the Diet (representative assembly) more frequently.
C)broke the power bases of the great nobles.
D)worked to free the peasantry from obligations of serfdom.
E)could not control the cities of their realm.
Q8) Review the feature entitled "Locke on the Origins of Government" in this chapter.How did the personal backgrounds of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke likely influence their opinions of human nature?
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Whigs.
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Chapter 18: The Wealth of Nations
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Q1) French and British colonial policies were similar in all but which of the following ways?
A)Both ran their colonies with tight supervision from the home country.
B)Both regulated trade in accordance with the principals of mercantilism.
C)Both increased naval power to protect their colonial trade.
D)Both were heavily dependent on slavery.
E)Both regulated trade in accordance with the principals of mercantilism and both increased naval power to protect their colonial trade.
Q2) What conditions were necessary for an industrial revolution? What factors prevented an industrial revolution from taking place prior to the late eighteenth century? What changes occurred in the eighteenth century that made it possible to overcome these impediments?
Q3) Which of the following inventors improved the steam engine?
A)Arkwright
B)Watt
C)Cartwright
D)Townshend
E)Jethro Tull
Q4) Why did England undergo industrialization first among the European countries?
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Chapter 19: The Age of Enlightenment
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Q1) Review the feature entitled "What Is Enlightenment?" in this chapter.Explain Kant's definitions of the "private realm" and the "public realm."
Q2) The philosophes believed the most important function of philosophy was to pursue
A)metaphysical exploration.
B)pure scientific knowledge.
C)the meaning and implications of power.
D)the rational study of human behavior.
E)the scientific basis of the Christian worldview.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: The Spirit of Laws.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Voltaire.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: David.
Q6) Review the feature entitled "Rousseau's Concept of the General Will" in this chapter.How can the individual "be forced to be free" in the general will? How can individual freedom be overruled by the general freedom?
Q7) Review the feature entitled "Joseph II on Religious Toleration" in this chapter.Both documents seem to imply that factors other than purely religious motives influenced Joseph II's policy of toleration.Given the historical context, what do you think these factors could be?
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Q1) Which of the following was NOT a reform measure carried out by the Assembly between 1789 and 1791?
A)granting universal suffrage
B)abolishing the nobility as a legal group
C)limiting the king's power to veto legislation
D)abolishing the historic provinces of France
E)creating a clear separation of powers
Q2) Review the feature entitled "Two Views of the Rights of Man" in this chapter.How does the Declaration of the Rights of Man define a citizen? Do those rights apply to women?
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Robespierre.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Haiti.
Q5) The American colonies of Britain shared in the revolutionary impulses that swept across late eighteenth-century Europe, yet the political changes that occurred there were very different.How did the American colonies differ from the European states, and what made their revolution unique?
Q6) Consider the illustration of women on the march depicted in this chapter.What was the role of women in the French Revolution? How are they portrayed here?
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Necker.
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Q1) Review the feature entitled "Napoleon Justifies Himself in 1815" in this chapter.In what ways was Napoleon a product of the Enlightenment? In what ways did he depart from Enlightenment ideals and rationality?
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: prefect.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: the Napoleonic legend.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: draft lottery.
Q5) The legend that grew up around Napoleon's life
A)blamed selfish and reactionary adversaries for opposing his progressive ideas.
B)failed to mention how Napoleon had underestimated the historic force of nationalism.
C)acknowledged Napoleon's dictatorship and military aggression, but argued they were necessary to preserve the gains of the French Revolution.
D)both blamed selfish and reactionary adversaries for opposing his progressive ideas and failed to mention how Napoleon had underestimated the historic force of nationalism.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Grand Army.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Battle of Jena.
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Chapter 22: Foundations of Nineteenth Century Europe
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Q1) Review the feature entitled "Metternich Analyzes the Threat to Stability" in this chapter.Was Metternich an ideologue or a pragmatist? Why?
Q2) Compare the social circumstances of the people portrayed in the images in this chapter.What kind of moods does each of these images emanate? Why?
Q3) How does the painting of Nasmyth's steam hammer found in this chapter depict both the beneficial and sinister aspects of industrialization?
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Louis XVIII.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: July Ordinances.
Q6) Which was NOT true of life as a factory worker in the early nineteenth century?
A)A high percentage of workers were women and children.
B)Employers used fines and physical punishment to impose discipline.
C)Government regulation protected workers from cyclical unemployment.
D)Workers frequently labored twelve hours or more a day.
E)Children and women were paid less than men.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Holy Alliance.
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: white terror.
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: St.Helena.
Q10) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Francis I.
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Georges Haussmann.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Second Republic.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Kulturkampf.
Q4) Review the feature entitled "Bismarck's Social Program" in this chapter.Do you find signs of German nationalism in this passage?
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Crimean War.
Q6) "In 1848 the forces of liberalism, democracy, and nationalism met in a head-on collision.Autocracy and capitalism emerged victorious." Explain this statement.Do you agree or disagree?
Q7) Review the feature entitled "Bismarck's Social Program" in this chapter.Why did a conservative nation such as Germany pass liberal laws promoting social welfare?
Q8) How did Napoleon III and Bismarck foster loyalty and suppress the opposition? Do their methods explain their popularity?
Q9) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Piedmont.
Q10) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Mazzini.
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Q11) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Garibaldi.
Q12) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Red Shirts.
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Henri Bergson.
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Charles Darwin.
Q3) Study the illustrations depicting women in this chapter.In what kinds of activities do you see women taking part? Do you find signs of progress and change or tradition in those activities?
Q4) In the late nineteenth century, the arts as an expression of European civilization
A)attained a unity of forms and styles indicative of a common European culture and values.
B)saw remarkably similar trends develop in different forms of art and architecture.
C)benefited from a larger and more sophisticated audience.
D)saw the emergence of an international style.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) What do the photos and illustrations found in this chapter reveal about politics and social classes around the turn of the century? How would Marx interpret these scenes?
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Russo-Japanese War.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Third Republic.
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Chapter 25: Nineteenth-Century Empires
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Q1) Lenin
A)agreed with Hobson about the economic basis of imperialism.
B)disagreed with the idea that all colonialism was exploitative.
C)argued that imperialism stemmed from capitalism itself.
D)both agreed with Hobson about the economic basis of imperialism and disagreed with the idea that all colonialism was exploitative.
E)both agreed with Hobson about the economic basis of imperialism and argued that it stemmed from capitalism itself.
Q2) Review the feature entitled "The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt" in this chapter.What made the British especially well-equipped to rule Egypt, according to Cromer?
Q3) The threats to the mercantile colonial world included all of the following EXCEPT
A)slave revolts.
B)independence movements.
C)the free-trade lobby.
D)Enlightenment universalism.
E)the papacy.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Zulu.
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Chapter 26: World War I and the War It Created
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Treaty of London.
Q2) What brought about women's suffrage in the interwar years? Why do you think the advent of women's suffrage had such little impact on family life and on Western democracies in western Europe?
Q3) The gravest problem faced by the Weimar Republic was A)the Spartacist uprisings.
B)inflation.
C)Freikorps agitation.
D)political challenge from the right.
E)nationalist movements.
Q4) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Wilson.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Triple Alliance.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Fourteen Points.
Q7) During World War I casualty figures in the armed forces were
A)50 percent or more.
B)30 percent or more.
C)20 percent or more.
D)10 percent or more.
E)5 percent or more.
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Irish Free State.
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Q1) Discuss the relationship between Hitler's rise to power and Germany's situation as a result of the Treaty of Versailles.How was Hitler able to benefit from the treaty?
Q2) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Nicholas II.
Q3) Review the feature entitled "Two Accounts of Revolution in Russia" in this chapter.What is the image Reed is attempting to convey of the Bolshevik revolutionaries?
Q4) The analytic philosophy of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein
A)found truth and justice in much the same way Socrates had.
B)concerned itself with issues of civic good in capitalist society.
C)attempted to define and analyze with precision.
D)both found truth and justice in much the same way Socrates had and concerned itself with issues of civic good in capitalist society.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: penicillin.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Adolf Hitler.
Q7) Review the feature entitled "Fascist Doctrine" in this chapter.Why did Fascism appeal to the middle class?
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: totalitarianism.
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Chapter 28: The Nightmare: World War II
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Q1) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Rome-Berlin Axis.
Q2) Review the Historical Issues feature entitled "The Historians' Debate on German Genocide" in this chapter.Cite specific parts in Wehler's passage that maintain the Holocaust "had distinctly German roots." What stance do you think Friedlander would take on this issue?
Q3) How did World War II alter life on the home front in Britain, Germany, and Soviet Russia?
Q4) The efforts to root out fascism after the war included
A)summary executions.
B)the Nuremberg trials.
C)public prosecutions.
D)both the Nuremberg trials and public prosecutions.
E)All these answers are correct.
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: atomic bomb.
Q6) Why did the United States become so fearful of the Soviet Union after 1945? Why was the Soviet Union so fearful of the United States?
Q7) Discuss the policy of appeasement.Why was it so hard for the democratic governments of Europe to respond to Hitler's foreign policy initiatives?
Q8) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Nuremberg trials.
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Q1) Which conflict was the first test of a multi-national army overseen by the UN?
A)Vietnam
B)Bosnia
C)Yugoslavia
D)Korea
E)Cambodia
Q2) The American plan for stimulating development of the postwar European economy was conceived by
A)George Marshall.
B)Harry Truman.
C)Douglas McArthur.
D)Henry Stimson.
E)John Keynes.
Q3) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Jean-Paul Sartre.
Q4) What were the roles of women in the years following World War II? How did the writings of Simone Beauvoir and Betty Friedan affect the burgeoning women's movement of the 1960s?
Q5) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Mustapha Kemal.
Q6) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Palestine.
Q7) Identify/define and explain the significance of the following: Truman Doctrine.
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Q1) Review the feature entitled "Havel's Inaugural Address" in this chapter.Why did the people of the Czech Republic elect an individual with no political or administrative experience?
Q2) Review the feature entitled "Havel's Inaugural Address" in this chapter.Although Havel criticizes conditions brought about by Communist rule, how could many of these criticisms also be brought to bear on capitalism and consumerism?
Q3) When did the GNP of the European Community surpass that of the United States?
A)1949
B)1959
C)1969
D)1979
E)1989
Q4) Western Europe's advanced governmental welfare programs have
A)significantly leveled the gap in income between the richest and the poorest in society.
B)virtually eliminated unemployment.
C)virtually eliminated slum housing.
D)provided significant increases in opportunities for higher education.
E)All these answers are correct.
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