Question 1

The author whose work emphasizes suffering and faith as the means for the human soul to be purified was

Accepted Answer

A) Émile Zola. 
B) Leo Tolstoy. 
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky. 
D) Friedrich Nietzsche. 
E) Herbert Spencer. 
A) Émile Zola. 
B) Leo Tolstoy. 
C) Fyodor Dostoevsky. 
D) Friedrich Nietzsche. 
E) Herbert Spencer.

Question 2

Marie and Pierre Curie formulated the relativity theory.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Maria Montessori exemplifies the "new woman" of modern times in that

Accepted Answer

A) she became a leading advocate of the vote for women. 
B) she entered Italian politics as a liberal. 
C) she created the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom. 
D) she obtained a professional degree and applied her expertise to new fields of inquiry like early childhood development. 
E) she was the first professional woman who received equal pay for equal work. 
A) she became a leading advocate of the vote for women. 
B) she entered Italian politics as a liberal. 
C) she created the International Women's League for Peace and Freedom. 
D) she obtained a professional degree and applied her expertise to new fields of inquiry like early childhood development. 
E) she was the first professional woman who received equal pay for equal work.

Question 4

By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had become the world's third richest nation and greatest industrial power, behind Great Britain and Imperial Germany.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which of the following Progressive-era laws went into effect during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) graduated federal income tax. 
B) Pure Food and Drug Act. 
C) Interstate Commerce Act. 
D) Meat Inspection Act. 
E) Social Security Act. 
A) graduated federal income tax. 
B) Pure Food and Drug Act. 
C) Interstate Commerce Act. 
D) Meat Inspection Act. 
E) Social Security Act.

Question 6

What was the Dreyfus affair, and how did it symbolize European anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Accepted Answer

The Dreyfus affair was a political scand

Question 7

The artist whose work garnered the highest price at the first Impressionist auction was

Accepted Answer

A) Claude Monet. 
B) Berthe Morisot. 
C) Éduoard Manet. 
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 
E) Vincent Van Gogh. 
A) Claude Monet. 
B) Berthe Morisot. 
C) Éduoard Manet. 
D) Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 
E) Vincent Van Gogh.

Question 8

What did women hope to achieve in the feminist movement? To what extent were women successful by 1914?

Accepted Answer

In the feminist movement, women hoped to

Question 9

The Boer War was fought by the British in

Accepted Answer

A) Australia. 
B) China. 
C) Zimbabwe. 
D) Botswana. 
E) South Africa. 
A) Australia. 
B) China. 
C) Zimbabwe. 
D) Botswana. 
E) South Africa.

Question 10

Germany entered the ranks of the imperialist powers by establishing African colonies including

Accepted Answer

A) the Sudan. 
B) Mozambique. 
C) Algeria. 
D) the Cameroons. 
E) Libya. 
A) the Sudan. 
B) Mozambique. 
C) Algeria. 
D) the Cameroons. 
E) Libya.

Question 11

In Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), Houston Stewart Chamberlain predicted that Germany was destined to

Accepted Answer

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

Question 12

Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes for her achievements in

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 13

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 14

Which of the following was NOT an argument to justify imperialism at the turn of the century?

Accepted Answer

A) the "white man's burden" 
B) Social Darwinism 
C) the need for military bases 
D) to lessen the burden of excess European population, especially criminals and other "undesirables" 
E) national prestige 
A) the "white man's burden" 
B) Social Darwinism 
C) the need for military bases 
D) to lessen the burden of excess European population, especially criminals and other "undesirables" 
E) national prestige

Question 15

What were the causes of the "New Imperialism" of the late nineteenth century? What were some of the arguments to justify this imperialism? What were the results or consequences of this imperialism?

Accepted Answer

The "New Imperialism" of the late ninete

Question 16

By the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups had emerged as labor's dominant voice in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) the Congress of Industrial Organizations. 
B) the American Federation of Labor. 
C) the Industrial Workers of the World. 
D) the Knights of Labor. 
E) the Socialist Worker's Party. 
A) the Congress of Industrial Organizations. 
B) the American Federation of Labor. 
C) the Industrial Workers of the World. 
D) the Knights of Labor. 
E) the Socialist Worker's Party.

Question 17

The best example of Naturalism in literature can be found in the novels of

Accepted Answer

A) Victor Hugo. 
B) Charles Dickens. 
C) Albert Camus. 
D) Émile Zola. 
E) Gustave Flaubert. 
A) Victor Hugo. 
B) Charles Dickens. 
C) Albert Camus. 
D) Émile Zola. 
E) Gustave Flaubert.

Question 18

Which revolutionary leader helped overthrow the Manchu dynasty of China in 1912?

Accepted Answer

A) Mao Tse-tung. 
B) Chou En-lai. 
C) Sun Yat-sen. 
D) Chiang Kai-shek. 
E) Mutsushito. 
A) Mao Tse-tung. 
B) Chou En-lai. 
C) Sun Yat-sen. 
D) Chiang Kai-shek. 
E) Mutsushito.

Question 19

Herbert Spencer was the chief propagandist for German volkish thought at the turn of the twentieth century.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the seat of reason is the

Accepted Answer

A) ego. 
B) superego. 
C) pleasure principle. 
D) id. 
E) dream. 
A) ego. 
B) superego. 
C) pleasure principle. 
D) id. 
E) dream.

Exam 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

The author whose work emphasizes suffering and faith as the means for the human soul to be purified was

Marie and Pierre Curie formulated the relativity theory.

Maria Montessori exemplifies the "new woman" of modern times in that

By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had become the world's third richest nation and greatest industrial power, behind Great Britain and Imperial Germany.

Which of the following Progressive-era laws went into effect during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president in the United States?

What was the Dreyfus affair, and how did it symbolize European anti-Semitism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

The artist whose work garnered the highest price at the first Impressionist auction was

What did women hope to achieve in the feminist movement? To what extent were women successful by 1914?

The Boer War was fought by the British in

Germany entered the ranks of the imperialist powers by establishing African colonies including

In Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), Houston Stewart Chamberlain predicted that Germany was destined to

Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes for her achievements in

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

Which of the following was NOT an argument to justify imperialism at the turn of the century?

What were the causes of the "New Imperialism" of the late nineteenth century? What were some of the arguments to justify this imperialism? What were the results or consequences of this imperialism?

By the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups had emerged as labor's dominant voice in the United States?

The best example of Naturalism in literature can be found in the novels of

Which revolutionary leader helped overthrow the Manchu dynasty of China in 1912?

Herbert Spencer was the chief propagandist for German volkish thought at the turn of the twentieth century.

In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the seat of reason is the

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