WESTERN CIVILIZATION II pre-test History 102

1) 

the military arm of the Nazi Party

2) 

the German officer corps

3) 

a radical political party

4) 

the militarized socialist party

1) 

Both increased contact between Western Europe and the Islamic world.

2) 

Both were motivated primarily by religious ideals.

3) 

Both represented a period of Christian tolerance for other religions.

4) 

Neither had a long-term cultural impact.

1) 

massive unemployment

2) 

the use of convicts

3) 

the Bolshevik Revolution

4) 

the 1923 inflation

1) 

William Wordsworth : poetry

2) 

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe : folklore

3) 

John Constable : drama

4) 

Mary Godwin Shelley : painting

1) 

50

2) 

90

3) 

75

4) 

25

1) 

radical, fundamentalist

2) 

militarization

3) 

Westernizing, secularizing

4) 

fragmentation

1) 

to distinguish nobles from others more clearly

2) 

to eliminate competition among the nobles for royal favors

3) 

to free the nobility from the vingtième

4) 

to make such titles more marketable

1) 

the granting of citizenship rights to indigenous people

2) 

the establishment of new forms of government

3) 

the granting of citizenship rights to women

4) 

the abolishment of slavery

1) 

Italy

2) 

the Ottoman Empire

3) 

Austria

4) 

Germany

1) 

racism; religion

2) 

culture; religion

3) 

history; revenge

4) 

religion; nationalism

1) 

The Russian Magna Carta was initially perceived as providing privileges and principles of self-organization, but was eventually perceived as providing political and corporate rights.

2) 

The rights it outlined were initially only intended to apply to Russian nobility, but were eventually extended to other Russians as well.

3) 

The Russian Magna Carta was initially perceived as providing political and corporate rights, but was eventually perceived as providing privileges and principles of self-organization.

4) 

The rights it outlined were initially applied to all Russians, but eventually came to apply only to Russian nobility.

1) 

Asia

2) 

Africa

3) 

North America

4) 

Europe

1) 

remained fundamentally different

2) 

moved closer together

3) 

diverged radically

4) 

never resembled each other.

1) 

nationalism

2) 

the end of the nobility

3) 

the French Revolution

4) 

the demise of the Holy Roman Empire

1) 

the role of Italy

2) 

the role of consumers

3) 

increased industrial output

4) 

new industrial machinery

1) 

mobilization of all of a nation’s resources

2) 

the large numbers of combatants

3) 

its global scope

4) 

the use of chemical and traditional weapons

1) 

Ure views the factory as a destructive influence on society that is stripping away the humanity of its workers, whereas Ruskin views the factory as a benevolent influence on society that provides work for the lower classes and financial gain for the upper classes.

2) 

Both Ure and Ruskin view the factory as a benevolent influence on society that provides work for the lower classes and financial gain for the upper classes.

3) 

Both Ure and Ruskin view the factory as a destructive influence on society that is stripping away the humanity of its workers.

4) 

Ure views the factory as a benevolent influence on society that provides work for the lower classes and financial gain for the upper classes, whereas Ruskin views the factory as a destructive influence on society that is stripping away the humanity of its workers.

1) 

concession to his allies

2) 

test of the Allies resolve

3) 

first move in occupying the Sudetenland

4) 

pointless maneuver

1) 

Party organization

2) 

SS (Schutzstaffel)

3) 

propaganda effort

4) 

SA (Sturm Abteilung)

1) 

who should be the next party chairman

2) 

the survival of the Communist Party

3) 

the pace of reform

4) 

the response to the Cuban missile crisis

1) 

Steam power decreased the cost of sugar cane production, causing a financial boom among plantation owners.

2) 

Steam power increased the cost of sugar cane production, causing many plantation owners to go bankrupt.

3) 

Upon the advent of steam power, some plantations replaced horses and mules with steam engines.

4) 

Plantations opted not to use steam power in favor of the continued use of cheap labor provided by animals and slaves.

1) 

Alfred Balfour

2) 

William Pitt

3) 

Benjamin Disraeli

4) 

William Gladstone

1) 

scientific assumptions

2) 

Darwin’s explanation of evolution

3) 

the authority of the Catholic Church

4) 

Einstein’s relativity theory

1) 

In Search of Time Past

2) 

Eminent Victorians

3) 

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

4) 

A Room of One’s Own

1) 

William Lovett

2) 

Robert Owen

3) 

Giuseppe Garibaldi

4) 

Karl Marx

1) 

the Catholic clergy

2) 

urban craftsmen

3) 

powerful Creoles

4) 

peninsulares

1) 

an inexhaustible power source

2) 

made to run anywhere

3) 

free to run

4) 

not dependent on a fuel source

1) 

communists

2) 

fascists

3) 

socialists

4) 

anarchists

1) 

Hanover

2) 

Alsace

3) 

Bavaria

4) 

Schleswig

1) 

Henrik Ibsen

2) 

George Bernard Shaw

3) 

Marcel Proust

4) 

Lytton Strachey

1) 

Brazil

2) 

Poland

3) 

Greece

4) 

Belgium

1) 

because they lacked the Western medicines necessary to fight it

2) 

because they had never been exposed to it and lacked the immune defenses necessary to fight it

3) 

because they were genetically more prone to illness and disease than European populations

4) 

because their immune systems had been weakened by the stress of warding of the encroaching settlers

1) 

women’s place in society

2) 

political equality

3) 

legal reform

4) 

welfare reform

1) 

labor unions

2) 

child labor

3) 

wage controls

4) 

dangerous working conditions

1) 

He embraced rationalism and denied the existence of human freedom, immortality, God.

2) 

He accepted rationalism, but still believed in human freedom, immortality, and the existence of God.

3) 

He denied rationalism in favor of a belief in human freedom, immortality, and the existence of God.

4) 

He believed that rationalism was the only component necessary to achieve enlightenment.

1) 

an adoption of a catatonic state

2) 

a complete acceptance of the repercussions of his actions

3) 

a level of delusion about his continued maintenance of absolute power

4) 

a level of astonishment at the English’s choice of punishment and his dramatic loss of power

1) 

Napoleon III

2) 

Louis XVIII

3) 

Louis Napoleon

4) 

Louis-Philipp

1) 

in their twenties and married

2) 

young and single

3) 

over thirty and widowed

4) 

divorced and in their twenties

1) 

full of symbolism of the French Revolution

2) 

divided between royalists and republicans

3) 

more reminiscent of medieval monarchy than republican France

4) 

makes clear the debt of Napoleon to the papacy

1) 

the centerpiece of an international exposition

2) 

a transportation center

3) 

monument to French imperialism

4) 

an experiment for the use of elevators

1) 

include all German-speaking lands

2) 

include only Prussia

3) 

not aim to include Austria

4) 

join Austria and Prussia

1) 

It could be easily transporte

2) 

It required no infrastructure.

3) 

It did not depend on fossil fuels.

4) 

It was free.

1) 

directly

2) 

through a French governor

3) 

as though Morocco was part of France

4) 

through a puppet monarch

1) 

moved cloth manufacturing to factories

2) 

could be used in homes

3) 

was a British invention

4) 

mechanized a step in cloth production

1) 

a Polish alliance with Russia

2) 

conservative reaction to revolutionary movements

3) 

a Polish Protestant resurgence

4) 

the spread of revolutionary ideas through Europe

1) 

had already clearly defied the Versailles Treaty

2) 

was committed to socialism

3) 

appeared less of a threat than the far right or far left

4) 

had proved to be good at building coalitions

1) 

Sudan

2) 

Serbia

3) 

Syria

4) 

Libya

1) 

baffling

2) 

unexpected

3) 

relied on naval power

4) 

based on secrecy

1) 

that social classes are an archaic tradition that needs to be examined through the lens of modern philosophical inquiry

2) 

that social classes are a mental construct that can easily be abolished in society

3) 

that social classes are inevitable in a society where men desire domination, wealth, pleasure, and idleness

4) 

that social classes are of the utmost importance to a balanced, successful, modern society

1) 

that it was drawn after the third partition of Poland

2) 

that it was drawn after the calling of the Estates General

3) 

that it was drawn before the second partition of Poland

4) 

that is was drawn before the calling of the Estates General

1) 

The British people’s love of big game hunting resulted in the near extinction of India’s big cats and bears.

2) 

British efforts to develop an atomic bomb resulted in the pollution of India’s waterways with chemical and nuclear waste.

3) 

British determination to industrialize India and introduce India to mills and factories resulted in terrible air pollution across much of India.

4) 

British encouragement of large-scale commercial logging resulted in deforestation and ecological destruction across much of India.

1) 

success of women’s calls for enfranchisement

2) 

successes of the National Constituent Assembly

3) 

impact of the American Revolution

4) 

usefulness of the Declaration of the Rights of Man to disenfranchised groups

1) 

fall of the Bastille

2) 

Tennis Court Oath

3) 

calling of the Estates General

4) 

Reign of Terror

1) 

aristocratic reaction

2) 

émigré

3) 

journée

4) 

cahier de doléances

1) 

The new president MacMahon was from the ranks of the communards.

2) 

The Commune protected Paris from the Prussian invasion.

3) 

It created a symbol of the possibilities of socialist insurrections.

4) 

The Third Republic was a socialist government.

1) 

Rome

2) 

Sardinia

3) 

Venetia

4) 

Sicily

1) 

competition and a struggle between the races

2) 

the abandonment of nationalist ideals

3) 

the application and enforcement of inscrutable human ethics

4) 

the use of military force in uncooperative nations

1) 

the belief that imperialism could only really be successful if the colonial territories adopted the religion and customs of their motherland

2) 

the belief held by many Christians that they could not go to heaven unless they converted at least five people to Christianity during their lifetime

3) 

the belief held by many Christians that they dwelled in a providential moment of history for the expansion of Christianity

4) 

the belief held by many Christians that if they did not convert foreigners to Christianity these foreigners might eventually try to force their blasphemous religions on them

1) 

the general will

2) 

brakes on each other’s power

3) 

a joint executive

4) 

a means of oppressing the people