World History Since 1600 Practice Exam
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World History Since 1600 explores the major events, movements, and transformations that have shaped the modern world from the early seventeenth century to the present. The course examines the rise and fall of empires, global trade networks, revolutions, imperialism, decolonization, and the impact of industrialization and globalization. Through the study of primary and secondary sources, students will analyze social, political, economic, and cultural changes across different regions, fostering an understanding of the interconnectedness and diversity of human experiences in the modern era.
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Humanities The Culture Continuity and Change Volume II 1600 to the Present 2nd Edition by Henry
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Chapter 20: The Baroque in Italy: The Church and Its Appeal
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Q1) Why is Vivaldi's The Four Seasons known as program music?
A)He composed it for one of the orphans' performances,or programs
B)Its purely instrumental music is connected to a story or idea
C)Its episodes contrast back and forth with the musical score
D)The music follows the program and rhythms of speech
Q2) Why did Gabrieli organize his compositions around a single note-the tonic note?
A)To heighten the sense of harmonic drama
B)To allow more pitch for the voices
C)To create effects of sonority in a cathedral
D)To enable the words to be heard over the music
Q3) Why were only girls in Venice's orphanages given music instruction?
A)Girls would handle the delicate instruments more gently
B)It was assumed that boys would enter the labor force
C)Girls required musical skill to secure a good marriage
D)Venetian orphanages housed only girls
Q4) Compare Bernini's Baroque David to Michelangelo's Renaissance David,explaining how each is representative of its respective period.
Q5) Compare the sensual elements of Bernini's Ecstasy of Saint Teresa to Caravaggio's Conversion of Saint Paul.
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Chapter 21: The Secular Baroque in the North: The Art of Observation
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Q1) Which of the following is not a contradiction of seventeenth-century Amsterdam residents?
A)Advocated harmony among others,viciously warred with the Spanish
B)Avidly collected art for homes,banned art in churches
C)Intolerant of religious heresy among Protestants,tolerant of Catholics and Jews
D)Obsessed with acquisition of material goods,rigidly austere in religious life
Q2) Why in 1618 were some members expelled from the Dutch Reformed Church and even imprisoned?
A)Belief that good deeds could overcome predestination
B)Refusal to convert from Calvinism to Dutch Reformed
C)Belief that predestination was independent of faith
D)Refusal to remove religious art from their churches
Q3) Describe the development,beliefs,and appearance of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Q4) In The Little Street why does Vermeer include a half-whitewashed wall and a mortar-filled cracked façade?
A)To show the tensions of domestic life
B)To symbolize Protestants and Catholic division
C)To emphasize the differences between two houses
D)To acknowledge the disparity between classes
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Chapter 22: The Baroque Court: Absolute Power and Royal
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Q1) Why has the era of Louis XIV's reign come to be known as the Age of Absolutism?
A)Science was providing answers for what previously was unknown
B)Louis was a strong monarch who exerted power based on divine right
C)The artists and architects looked to the absolutes of classical style
D)Louis served as monarch to both France and the Holy Roman Empire
Q2) Identify and describe three of the six dances that can make up a suite.
Q3) What is meant by a Rubenesque figure?
A)Fleshy and voluptuous
B)Small breasted and wide hipped
C)Slender and modestly posed
D)Enveloped by rich textures and colors
Q4) Why were the New Spain retablos (altarpiece ensembles)designed to be so extravagant?
A)To contrast with the simplicity of the indigenous people's sacred spaces
B)To impress the indigenous people into converting to Christianity
C)To show the indigenous people how their taxes were spent
D)To Christianize the indigenous people's existing art
Q5) Compare Peter Paul Rubens' idea of a beautiful human body,which came to be known as Rubenesque,to today's standards of the body beautiful.
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Chapter 23: The Rise of the Enlightenment in England: The
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Q1) Why did Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" advocate butchering Irish children?
A)To reduce the poverty of the Irish
B)To satirize the English treatment of the Irish
C)To decrease the number of Irish Protestants
D)To persuade the Irish poor to migrate to America
Q2) Explain the connection between Captain Cook's explorations in the Pacific and the ideas that were arising in England during the Enlightenment.
Q3) Why primarily did James Cook set sail for Tahiti in 1768?
A)To establish trade with the Tahitians
B)To settle a British colony there
C)To chart the transit of Venus
D)To find a Pacific route to India
Q4) List,define,and provide examples of two types of novels that developed in eighteenth-century England.
Q5) Define satire,providing two examples mentioned in the chapter,and explain its appeal to writers and readers of eighteenth-century England.
Q6) Explain how Milton's God and Satan reflect the ideas of Locke and Hobbes.
Q7) Compare Hobbes' and Locke's ideas about the role of government.
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Chapter 24: The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the
Continent: Privilege and Reason
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Q1) Describe the features of the English garden,and explain the intended effects on the viewer of its design.
Q2) Why do many of François Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour show her reading or writing?
A)To validate her role as Louis XV's most trusted advisor
B)To advocate the education of French women
C)To establish her as intellectually worthy of Louis XV
D)To negate the rumors that she was Louis XV's mistress
Q3) Under Frederick I,what did Prussia value above all else?
A)Music
B)Freedom
C)History
D)Discipline
Q4) Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so popular?
A)Their mythological allusions
B)Their symmetry and perspective
C)Their erotic overtones
D)Their realistic portrayal of society
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Q5) List and describe the four sections of Johann Stamitz's orchestra.
Q6) Identify and describe two ways Rococo painting differs from Baroque.
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Chapter 25: The Rights of Man: Revolution and the
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Q1) Identify,describe,and cite specific examples of two ways Jean Louis-David's paintings define French Neoclassicism.
Q2) Why was Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état of the French Directory in 1799 successful?
A)The French women were threatening an uprising
B)The Directory was not providing stability for France
C)The Directory was proposing a new monarchy
D)The had just entered another war with England
Q3) What distinction does Phyllis Wheatley hold?
A)First black American to publish a book
B)First black woman to become a minister
C)First black woman to earn her living as a writer
D)First black woman to receive a portrait commission
Q4) Why did Jefferson locate Monticello on a hilltop?
A)Charlottesville,Virginia,is surrounded by hills
B)It would be safe from the floods common to that area
C)Hilltops were traditional sites of Greek or Roman temples
D)It provided the best view of the Virginia countryside
Q5) Discuss the role of women in the French Revolution.
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Chapter 26: The Romantic World View: the Self in Nature
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Q1) What term did Hector Berlioz give to the leading theme or melody in his symphonies?
A)Scherzo
B)Fortissimo
C)Idée fixe
D)Étude
Q2) Why was the natural world Romantic poetry's primary subject?
A)Its absence of complexity and pretension
B)Its availability to everyone no matter what social class
C)Its ability to stimulate emotions and imagination
D)Its
Q3) In Goethe's Faust,why does the title character sell his soul to the devil?
A)Disappointed with love
B)Lust for vast riches
C)Profound boredom
D)To benefit mankind
Q4) Identify and explain three techniques Goya uses in The Third of May,1808,to convey his message about the horrors of war.
Q5) List,explain,and provide specific examples for three developments in music during the Romantic age.
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Q1) Construct an argument for or against Paul Delaroche's claim that after the development of photography,"Painting is dead!"
Q2) List and explain three ways industrialization changed the English working class people.
Q3) What did the English Factory Act of 1833 do for factory workers?
A)Established a minimum daily wage
B)Banned employment of children under age nine
C)Displaced women from the workforce
D)Required factories to provide decent housing
Q4) Why did Charles Darwin sail on the H.M.S.Beagle in 1831?
A)To serve as the ship's physician
B)To find evidence for human evolution
C)To photograph South America
D)To serve as the ship's naturalist
Q5) By how much did London's population increase between 1800 and 1880?
A)Double
B)Triple
C)Quadruple
D)Quintuple
Q6) Describe the living and working conditions of nineteenth-century London.
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Chapter 28: Global Confrontation and Civil War: Challenges to Cultural Identity
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Q1) Why did Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx believe capitalism should be eliminated?
A)It supported government
B)It failed to generate profits
C)It exploited women and slaves
D)It was inherently unfair
Q2) How did the American Civil War change the nature of warfare?
A)It allowed the different races to fight together
B)It was American fighting against American
C)Its battlefields were on civilians' properties
D)It was mechanized and impersonal,with no pageantry
Q3) List three ways Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann redesigned Paris,describing the rationale for these changes.
Q4) On what values was liberalism based?
A)Equality and freedom
B)Regional autonomy
C)Monarchial control
D)Working class reform
Q5) Describe the American minstrel show,and show how it fostered stereotypes of the southern African American.
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Chapter 29: In Pursuit of Modernity: Paris in the 1850s and 1860s
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Q1) Define literary naturalism,and provide two examples Émile Zola's works.
Q2) In Germinal why was Zola able to portray the plight of the French coal miner so realistically?
A)He came from a coal mining family
B)He went into a mine to research it
C)He had worked in a mine in his teens
D)He had read Charles Dickens's novels
Q3) Identify and explain three elements in Olympia that support the view that Manet designed the painting as a statement against slavery.
Q4) How did George Sand challenge sexual stereotypes?
A)Writing novels about female sexual desire
B)Using a man's name and dressing as a man
C)Being both father and mother to her children
D)Having herself appointed to the French cabinet
Q5) In his operas why did Wagner shift the melodic element from the singer to the orchestra?
A)To indicate breaks in the action
B)To overwhelm the audiences' ears
C)To make the words more understandable
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D)To synthesize the words and the music
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Chapter 30: The Promise of Renewal: Hope and Possibility in
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Q1) Compare the main themes of Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
Q2) Why did Claude Monet,Auguste Renoir,Edgar Degas,and other artists found a Société anonyme?
A)To help rebuild French culture
B)To unionize the French artists
C)To challenge the Salon's exhibits
D)To show their art anonymously
Q3) Why does Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party seem to present an unreal world?
A)Men and women as equals
B)So many social classes together
C)No city overcrowding and pollution
D)Leisure and pleasure without work
Q4) How did Tchaikovsky raise ballet music to a new level?
A)With en pointe dancers and skimpier costumes
B)By including French and Russian folk music
C)With lyrical melodies and rich orchestration
D)By introducing realistic effects such as cannon shots
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Q5) Analyze the connection between work and art as illustrated by Degas's Dance Class and Caillebotte's The Floor-Scrapers.
Chapter 31: The Course of Empire: Expansion and Conflict in America
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Q1) What was the title of the preparatory sketch for George Bellows' Cliff Dwellers?
A)"Your Tired,Your Poor,Your Huddled Masses"
B)"Why Don't They All Go to the Country for a Vacation?"
C)"I Sing the Body Electric,the Armies of Those I Love"
D)"The Wretched Refuse of Your Teeming Shores"
Q2) Why did John Ruskin criticize James Whistler's Impressionistic Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket?
A)For copying the French style
B)For selling for 200 pounds
C)For looking like flung paint
D)For altering objective truth
Q3) Why did the U.S.Congress select Chicago to host the 1893 Columbian Exposition?
A)Location at center of the U.S.
B)Majority of citizens foreign-born
C)Lakes providing efficient transport
D)Rural areas for hall construction
Q4) Describe and analyze the role and importance of art-both visual and performance-for the Plains tribes.
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Q5) Describe the events that led up to and resulted from Wounded Knee,South Dakota,on December 29,1890.
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Chapter 32: The Fin De Siècle: Toward the Modern
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Q1) Why did Paul Gauguin leave France for Tahiti in 1891?
A)To avoid being arrested for murdering his wife's lover
B)To get far away from the European capitalism
C)To earn money by working on a merchant ship
D)To escape his obligations to his five children
Q2) Why did Friedrich Nietzsche reject organized religion,going so far as to declare that "God is dead"?
A)For producing morality based on fear of punishment
B)For suppressing people's creative thoughts
C)For demanding conformity among its members
D)For denying that people could be heroes
Q3) List and define in depth two beliefs of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Q4) Why did the Society of Men of Letters refuse to accept Rodin's Monument to Balzac,forcing him to return the advance payments?
A)Too large for the designated site
B)Portrayed Balzac erotically
C)Presented Balzac nude
D)Not a realistic portrayal
Q5) List and describe three ways the European colonialism of Africa affected the African people.
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Chapter 33: The Era of Invention: Paris and the Modern World
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Q1) Why did Igor Stravinsky earn boos and hisses from the opening-night Parisian audience for Le Sacre de printemps (The Rite of Spring)?
A)Stravinsky was Russian
B)The dancers were nude
C)The play was violent and paganistic
D)The radical music was jarring
Q2) Identify and explain three specific examples for motion being a defining characteristic of early twentieth-century art.
Q3) According to the Futurists,what was the defining characteristic of modern life?
A)Politics
B)Art
C)War
D)Speed
Q4) Why did viewers find Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon disturbing?
A)The subjects are prostitutes
B)The shapes are unnatural
C)The women look androgynous
D)The blue and orange colors clash
Q5) List and explain three reasons early motion pictures appealed to people.
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Chapter 34: The Great War and Its Impact: a Lost
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Q1) Summarize William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming," identifying and explaining two metaphors in the poem.
Q2) Why did the World War I soldiers so fear mustard gas?
A)It had a noxious smell
B)It blinded and choked them
C)It turned their skin yellow
D)It provided cover for the enemy
Q3) The Russian Suprematists sought to discover what most minimally made a painting.Explain their response to that idea,and then provide your definition of what qualifies as a painting.
Q4) Why in the 1915 "0,10" exhibition did Malevich replace the area reserved for religious icons with his Black Square?
A)To support the forces looking for revolution
B)To represent the masses of Russian peasants
C)To show the difference between good and evil
D)To represent the void of religious feeling
Q5) Show and explain two ways Freud's theories about personality affected the Surrealist art of Picasso and Dali.
Q6) List and define Freud's three competing drives of human personality.
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Q1) Why did Hollywood,CA,become the center of the movie industry?
A)Plentiful cheap Mexican labor
B)Proximity to varied terrain
C)Abundant inexpensive land
D)Large manufacturing area
Q2) As discussed in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why did Adolph Hitler ban abstract art?
A)For including works done by Jewish artists
B)For representing dissolution of the established
C)For not representing subjects realistically
D)For rejecting propagandistic symbolism
Q3) What typically are the subjects of blues songs?
A)Loss and injustice
B)Deferred dreams
C)Home and family
D)Violence and death
Q4) Define W.E.B Du Bois' "double consciousness" of the African Americans,and show how that "double consciousness" presents itself in two of the following from the 1920s-1930s: literature,visual art,music.
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Chapter 36: The Age of Anxiety: Fascism and Depression
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Q1) In his painting to what event does Picasso link the tragedy of Guernica?
A)Roman defeat of the Masada Jews
B)Crucifixion of Christ
C)Assassination of Pancho Villa
D)Ritualized Spanish bullfighting
Q2) World War II had a positive effect in that it instigated the movement towards worldwide decolonialization.Identify two countries in which this effect was felt,and explain their steps towards independence.
Q3) Identify and analyze two events that aided Adolph Hitler in his rise to power in Germany.
Q4) Why did Stalin kill up to 10 million kulaks (peasant farmers)and send millions others to labor camps between 1929 and 1933?
A)For refusing to collectivize
B)For causing a meat shortage
C)For leaving farms for factory jobs
D)For importing grain to Germany
Q5) Describe and analyze the ritualized bullfighting metaphor that Pablo Picasso uses in his Guernica.
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Q1) What does Roy Lichtenstein criticize in Oh,Jeff ...I Love You,Too ...But ...?
A)Comic book mentality
B)Georges Seurat's pointillism
C)Modern love's emptiness
D)America's obsession with Hollywood
Q2) In Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot,why does Godot never arrive?
A)He is dead
B)Audience never knows
C)He does not exist
D)He goes to the wrong place
Q3) Why did the London-formed Independents call their creations "Pop Art"?
A)They based it on American popular culture
B)The vivid colors they used pop from the canvas
C)It celebrated the popular films of the 1950s
D)It became very popular with war-ravaged Londoners
Q4) What is Jean-Paul Sartre's first principle of his atheistic existentialism?
A)"Only in suffering can a man make a leap of faith"
B)"A man's eternal hell is other people"
C)"The path up and down are one in the same"
D)"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself"
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Chapter 38: Multiplicity and Diversity: Cultures of Liberation and
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Q1) How did performance-piece artist Eleanor Antin explore gender definitions and construction?
A)Photographing herself in Hollywood roles
B)Deepening her voice with a harmonizer
C)Casting herself as both genders in her plays
D)Adopting historical personae and disguises
Q2) Why did rap,or hip-hop,develop during the 1960s?
A)Perform during the Last Poets gatherings
B)Protest treatment of African Americans
C)Popularize works by African American poets
D)Protest the dominancy of white music
Q3) How does the narrator in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man end up living in an underground hole in Harlem?
A)Only living space he could afford
B)Accidentally fell into it during a riot
C)Driven there by three hostile white boys
D)Withdrew from society after a wrongful arrest
Q4) Compare the statements made about "penis envy" in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique to Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus."
Q5) Summarize the role popular music played in the youth rebellion of the 1960s.
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Chapter 39: Without Boundaries: Multiple Meanings in a
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Q1) Why did African painter Chris Ofili support The Holy Virgin Mary on two balls of elephant dung?
A)The dried and varnished dung made sturdy mounts
B)Dried elephant dung is considered good luck in Africa
C)He wanted to make himself more known through controversy
D)The Zimbabwe viewed elephant dung as a fertility symbol
Q2) How is deconstruction,the act of analyzing a text to see what has been omitted or overlooked,integral to postmodernism?
A)Determine a reader's response to a work
B)Draw attention to the individual words
C)Become aware of culture's influence on a text
D)Expose the possibilities of meaning
Q3) As briefly yet clearly as possible,explain how chaos theory and the butterfly effect fits with the ideas of postmodernism.
Q4) Define Robert Venturi's point that postmodern architecture should represent a "difficult whole," and identify and describe two examples from the book of how this "difficult whole" is presented.
Q5) Identify and describe three ways Yasumasa Morimura's Portrait (Twins)is designed to disturb the viewer.
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