Question 1

Thomas Cook was a pioneer in

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A) organizing professional team sports. 
B) mass tourism. 
C) building dance halls. 
D) the creation of the department store. 
E) the redesign of London's parks for weekend leisure activities. 
A) organizing professional team sports. 
B) mass tourism. 
C) building dance halls. 
D) the creation of the department store. 
E) the redesign of London's parks for weekend leisure activities.

Question 2

Eduard Bernstein, in his book Evolutionary Socialism, claimed that

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A) the only hope for the workers was a violent revolution. 
B) socialism could best be achieved through the democratic process. 
C) unions should bargain with employers and avoid politics. 
D) the poor were too ignorant to be allowed to vote. 
E) true communism would take hundreds of years to evolve. 
A) the only hope for the workers was a violent revolution. 
B) socialism could best be achieved through the democratic process. 
C) unions should bargain with employers and avoid politics. 
D) the poor were too ignorant to be allowed to vote. 
E) true communism would take hundreds of years to evolve.

Question 3

​France's defeat by Prussia in 1870 ended the Third Republic.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

Charles Parnell, the leader of the Irish representatives in Parliament, called for

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A) Ireland's complete separation from Britain. 
B) the partition of Ireland into two states, one of which would be fully independent and the other of which would be joined to Britain. 
C) Irish self-government through a separate parliament but not complete independence. 
D) the union of Ireland and Scotland into a New United Kingdom. 
E) the dominance of Ireland over all of Britain. 
A) Ireland's complete separation from Britain. 
B) the partition of Ireland into two states, one of which would be fully independent and the other of which would be joined to Britain. 
C) Irish self-government through a separate parliament but not complete independence. 
D) the union of Ireland and Scotland into a New United Kingdom. 
E) the dominance of Ireland over all of Britain.

Question 5

In the decades after 1870, most Western governments made elementary education mandatory through state-run systems.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

European middle-class families during the late nineteenth century

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A) were more concerned with displaying the work ethic than in displaying wealth and following proper decorum. 
B) stressed functional knowledge for their children to prepare them for their future roles. 
C) prided themselves on doing the housework and cooking for their families. 
D) increasingly became less cohesive, as togetherness was no longer an important value. 
E) increased in numbers but were weakened structurally as men abandoned their family focus in order to advance their lives professionally. 
A) were more concerned with displaying the work ethic than in displaying wealth and following proper decorum. 
B) stressed functional knowledge for their children to prepare them for their future roles. 
C) prided themselves on doing the housework and cooking for their families. 
D) increasingly became less cohesive, as togetherness was no longer an important value. 
E) increased in numbers but were weakened structurally as men abandoned their family focus in order to advance their lives professionally.

Question 7

The trade union movement prior to World War I

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A) was strongest in France after the dissolution of the Second International in 1890. 
B) occurred despite trade unions being banned by most governments. 
C) varied from country to country, but was generally allied with socialist parties. 
D) was primarily for unskilled laborers, especially the New Model unions. 
E) focused entirely on wages and working conditions negotiated directly with employers without any government involvement in the process. 
A) was strongest in France after the dissolution of the Second International in 1890. 
B) occurred despite trade unions being banned by most governments. 
C) varied from country to country, but was generally allied with socialist parties. 
D) was primarily for unskilled laborers, especially the New Model unions. 
E) focused entirely on wages and working conditions negotiated directly with employers without any government involvement in the process.

Question 8

"Sweating" jobs for women involved

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A) the subcontracting of piecework, usually in the tailoring trades. 
B) working as a domestic servant. 
C) hard physical labor on farms in the countryside. 
D) competing for sales commissions in new department stores. 
E) service as operators in the new telephone exchanges. 
A) the subcontracting of piecework, usually in the tailoring trades. 
B) working as a domestic servant. 
C) hard physical labor on farms in the countryside. 
D) competing for sales commissions in new department stores. 
E) service as operators in the new telephone exchanges.

Question 9

Industrialization in Japan was the result of

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A) private investment and initiative. 
B) European colonization. 
C) socialist planning on the Marxist model. 
D) government planning and initiative. 
E) ambitious former samurai. 
A) private investment and initiative. 
B) European colonization. 
C) socialist planning on the Marxist model. 
D) government planning and initiative. 
E) ambitious former samurai.

Question 10

All of the following were used to limit family size in the late nineteenth century except

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A) coitus interruptus. 
B) birth control pills. 
C) abortion. 
D) abandonment. 
E) infanticide. 
A) coitus interruptus. 
B) birth control pills. 
C) abortion. 
D) abandonment. 
E) infanticide.

Question 11

What policies and practices created mass politics in western European states? Did these changes fulfill the aims of earlier nineteenth-century liberals? Why or why not?

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The creation of mass politics in western

Exam 23: Mass Society in an Age of Progress, 1871-1894

Thomas Cook was a pioneer in

Eduard Bernstein, in his book Evolutionary Socialism, claimed that

​France's defeat by Prussia in 1870 ended the Third Republic.

Charles Parnell, the leader of the Irish representatives in Parliament, called for

In the decades after 1870, most Western governments made elementary education mandatory through state-run systems.

European middle-class families during the late nineteenth century

The trade union movement prior to World War I

"Sweating" jobs for women involved

Industrialization in Japan was the result of

All of the following were used to limit family size in the late nineteenth century except

What policies and practices created mass politics in western European states? Did these changes fulfill the aims of earlier nineteenth-century liberals? Why or why not?

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

The Civilization of the Greeks

The Hellenistic World

The Roman Republic

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

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

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

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

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

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 II

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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