Question 1

Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections"?

Accepted Answer

A) David Lloyd George 
B) Cecil Rhodes 
C) Otto von Bismarck 
D) Leopold II 
E) Henry Stanley 
A) David Lloyd George 
B) Cecil Rhodes 
C) Otto von Bismarck 
D) Leopold II 
E) Henry Stanley

Question 2

Alfred Dreyfus sold army secrets to German and Austrian intelligence agents.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In the First Balkans War, the Balkan League defeated

Accepted Answer

A) the Ottoman Empire. 
B) Russia. 
C) Austria. 
D) Italy. 
E) Serbia. 
A) the Ottoman Empire. 
B) Russia. 
C) Austria. 
D) Italy. 
E) Serbia.

Question 4

What did Houston Stewart Chamberlain argue in his 1899-publication Foundations of the Nineteenth Century?

Accepted Answer

A) Germany would lead the world in high-tech manufacturing. 
B) Germany would lead the Aryan race to the conquest of Europe. 
C) Germany would be the European leader in music and the arts. 
D) Germany would generate the next great world religion. 
E) Germany would fail if they did not accept Jews as the originators of Western civilization. 
A) Germany would lead the world in high-tech manufacturing. 
B) Germany would lead the Aryan race to the conquest of Europe. 
C) Germany would be the European leader in music and the arts. 
D) Germany would generate the next great world religion. 
E) Germany would fail if they did not accept Jews as the originators of Western civilization.

Question 5

Who won the Noble Peace Prize in 1905?

Accepted Answer

A) Amalie Sieveking 
B) Emmeline Pankhurst 
C) Bertha von Suttner 
D) Maria Montessori 
E) Clara Barton 
A) Amalie Sieveking 
B) Emmeline Pankhurst 
C) Bertha von Suttner 
D) Maria Montessori 
E) Clara Barton

Question 6

In what two areas of science did Marie Curie win Nobel prizes?

Accepted Answer

A) Cellular biology and chemistry 
B) Physics and cellular biology 
C) Physics and chemistry 
D) Geology and physics 
E) Chemistry and astronomy 
A) Cellular biology and chemistry 
B) Physics and cellular biology 
C) Physics and chemistry 
D) Geology and physics 
E) Chemistry and astronomy

Question 7

To what did Russia's disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War indirectly lead?

Accepted Answer

A) The dismissal of Count Witte 
B) The loss of all of Siberia to Japan 
C) The enlargement of the Duma 
D) An unsuccessful coup by the Tsar 
E) The Revolution of 1905 
A) The dismissal of Count Witte 
B) The loss of all of Siberia to Japan 
C) The enlargement of the Duma 
D) An unsuccessful coup by the Tsar 
E) The Revolution of 1905

Question 8

Einstein concluded that matter was

Accepted Answer

A) not really real. 
B) just another form of energy. 
C) fundamentally different than energy. 
D) indestructible. 
E) a form of time. 
A) not really real. 
B) just another form of energy. 
C) fundamentally different than energy. 
D) indestructible. 
E) a form of time.

Question 9

By the early twentieth century, British liberalism had abandoned laissez-faire in favor of governmental activism and social reform.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Which event best exemplified renewed anti-Semitism in France in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A) The Boulanger coup 
B) The Sorel uprising 
C) The Dreyfus affair 
D) the Zola capitulation 
E) The fall of the Third Republic 
A) The Boulanger coup 
B) The Sorel uprising 
C) The Dreyfus affair 
D) the Zola capitulation 
E) The fall of the Third Republic

Question 11

The goal of the "Boxers" was to bring European-style democracy to China.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections"?

Alfred Dreyfus sold army secrets to German and Austrian intelligence agents.

In the First Balkans War, the Balkan League defeated

What did Houston Stewart Chamberlain argue in his 1899-publication Foundations of the Nineteenth Century?

Who won the Noble Peace Prize in 1905?

In what two areas of science did Marie Curie win Nobel prizes?

To what did Russia's disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War indirectly lead?

Einstein concluded that matter was

By the early twentieth century, British liberalism had abandoned laissez-faire in favor of governmental activism and social reform.

Which event best exemplified renewed anti-Semitism in France in the late nineteenth century?

The goal of the "Boxers" was to bring European-style democracy to China.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 11: An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism 1894-1914

Who said, "All this colonial business is a sham, but we need it for the elections"?

Alfred Dreyfus sold army secrets to German and Austrian intelligence agents.

In the First Balkans War, the Balkan League defeated

What did Houston Stewart Chamberlain argue in his 1899-publication Foundations of the Nineteenth Century?

Who won the Noble Peace Prize in 1905?

In what two areas of science did Marie Curie win Nobel prizes?

To what did Russia's disastrous defeat in the Russo-Japanese War indirectly lead?

Einstein concluded that matter was

By the early twentieth century, British liberalism had abandoned laissez-faire in favor of governmental activism and social reform.

Which event best exemplified renewed anti-Semitism in France in the late nineteenth century?

The goal of the "Boxers" was to bring European-style democracy to China.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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