Quiz: Social and Cultural Change
Due Jul 17 at 11:59pm
Points 50
Questions 21
Time Limit 90 Minutes
Instructions
The quiz:
Covers the material from Learn Module 3: Week 3.
Contains 21 multiple-choice and essay questions.
Is to limited 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Allows .1 attempt
Is .worth 50 points
Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module 3: Week 3.
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Question 1
1.75 / 1.75 pts
The book On the Origins of Species by Charles Darwin helped support what
Victorian ideal?
belief in animal experiments
the view that competition would determine those who were fit to rule
the belief that God had destined humans to rule over the other species
that travel to the Galapagos Islands was the highest achievement possible
that biology was the most important academic subject to study
Question 2
1.75 / 1.75 pts
By the 1860s, France's major export was
wine.
perfume.
capital.
high-fashion clothes.
champagne.
Question 3
1.75 / 1.75 pts
During the Crimean War, what was responsible for the most deaths?
rifle bullets
land cannon fire
fire from naval guns
disease
freezing temperatures
Question 4
1.75 / 1.75 pts
Benjamin Disraeli was an atypical leader among nineteenth-century British
conservatives because he
had been born abroad.
was an atheist.
started his political life as a radical.
did not believe in the institution of monarchy.
was born Jewish and was a man of modest means.
Question 5
1.75 / 1.75 pts
What were the beliefs of the Russian "Slavophiles"?
Slavery was the basis of a functioning society.
Slavery needed to be abolished, and reparations needed to be paid to former
slaves.
Unique Russian social and religious characteristics could save the country
from the ills of modernization.
Slovaks were brothers to the Russian people.
Slovenes were brothers to the Russian people.
Question 6
1.75 / 1.75 pts
What were the beliefs of the Russian "Westernizers"?
Russia should develop the western part of the country.
Russia should look to the West for models of political, social, and economic
development.
Russia should form military alliances with western countries.
Russian students should study in western universities.
Russia should expand to the West at the expense of Austria and Prussia.
Question 7
1.75 / 1.75 pts
In the pamphlet What Is to Be Done?,
Marx explained his social policy.
Lenin established the basic tenets of a new revolutionary party.
Bakunin explained the basis of anarchism.
Tsar Alexander II outlined his policy for freeing the serfs.
Tsar Nicholas II explained the new Russian constitution.
Question 8
1.75 / 1.75 pts
Who were the "nihilists"?
a French political party
Irish revolutionaries
a Russian group that rejected all established order
the tsar's secret police
an intellectual group that operated under strict moral dogmas
Question 9
1.75 / 1.75 pts
Shortly after the French Third Republic was established, the royalists came
close to forming a common party. They failed because the pretender to the
throne
did not want to be elected king by the people.
wanted to be commander-in-chief of the army.
wanted all references to republic and Napoleon removed from school books.
did not want to be king and use the tricolor flag of the French Revolution.
did not want the job.
Question 10
1.75 / 1.75 pts
By the middle of the nineteenth century, what empire was known as "the
sick man of Europe"?
the French Empire
the British Empire
the Russian Empire
the Ottoman Empire
the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Question 11
1.75 / 1.75 pts
A series of laws between 1897-1911 attempted to help the poor in Great
Britain. The result was
a great and unqualified success.
a total failure.
that about one-third of the British poor still did not receive any assistance.
that most laws were not enforced.
that the laws were not effective for a variety of reasons.
Question 12
1.75 / 1.75 pts
Two opposing views of anarchism (one violent, the other peaceful) were
championed by
Guesde and Millerand.
Millerand and Jures.
Jures and Guesde.
Bakunin and Kropotkin.
Bakunin and Millerand.
IncorrectQuestion 13
0 / 1.75 pts
In response to the rise of unionization and socialism, Pope Leo XIII authored
the encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), which
proclaimed that the pope was infallible.
declared socialism a sin.
recognized that workers had some legitimate complaints.
advised people to turn to the Church for solace.
declared that the Church had no place in politics.
Question 14
1.75 / 1.75 pts
The writer Guillaume Apollinaire was notorious for
writing obscene books.
writing French works in German.
writing reviews of books that did not exist.
offending the Catholic Church.
offending the French Republic.
Question 15
1.75 / 1.75 pts
The avant-garde were
artists who created in the old, pre-1789 tradition.
artists working in the "positivist" tradition.
artists who saw themselves in the forefront of a new era.
women artists.
artists who were inspired by women.
Question 16
1.75 / 1.75 pts
During the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, socialists were
divided into two groups,
according to nationality.
according to gender.
according to occupation.
Marxist socialists and reform socialists.
Christian socialists and social democrats.
Question 17
1.75 / 1.75 pts
Which European country was the first to offer workers health and accident
insurance?
Germany
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
France
Italy
Question 18
1.75 / 1.75 pts
What were the Barbizon painters?
a group that painted formal portraits
a group that painted village life
a group that painted religious scenes
a group that painted imaginary scenes
a group that painted city life
Question 19
1.75 / 1.75 pts
What was the main reason the British Poor Law did not work?
It was underfunded.
People who enrolled were treated like prisoners.
It worked on a volunteer basis.
It was allowed to expire after fifty years.
Most people did not know about it.
Question 20
1.75 / 1.75 pts
In the late-nineteenth century, women started demanding the right to vote.
In Britain, the scope of the issue was highlighted by
women demonstrating in the streets.
a woman throwing herself in front of the king's horse.
violent actions by women.
the number of men who supported women's causes.
a petition (signed by more than 250,000 people) calling for reforms.
Question 21
5 / 15 pts
What international tensions led the French and the British to support the
Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War?
Your Answer:
Russia's position of power in the region was looked at as a threat to Britain
and France. Russia and Britain competing in Afghanistan, caused the two
nations to become more hostel towards each other. Britain wanted to create
an are in Afghanistan that would be controlled by Britain, and support the
Ottoman Empire, Persia, Khiva, and Bukhara against Russia and any chance
of expanding. In the public eye, Britain was always eager and looking for a
war and sought it with Russia.
Quiz Score: out of 5038.25
