Question 1

The Meiji Restoration in Japan

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A) successfully accomplished the expulsion of all foreigners from the country. 
B) created a political system rigidly authoritarian in both form and practice. 
C) concentrated on the reestablishment of feudal principles of decentralized government and native Japanese values. 
D) sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization. 
E) forcefully rejected westernization and looked instead to China as its model. 
A) successfully accomplished the expulsion of all foreigners from the country. 
B) created a political system rigidly authoritarian in both form and practice. 
C) concentrated on the reestablishment of feudal principles of decentralized government and native Japanese values. 
D) sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization. 
E) forcefully rejected westernization and looked instead to China as its model.

Question 2

The October Manifesto of Nicholas II

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A) immediately led to the storming of the Winter Palace. 
B) prompted the event known as "Bloody Sunday." 
C) led to the creation a legislative assembly known as the Duma. 
D) incensed the middle-class moderates. 
E) provoked Japan into declaring war on Russia. 
A) immediately led to the storming of the Winter Palace. 
B) prompted the event known as "Bloody Sunday." 
C) led to the creation a legislative assembly known as the Duma. 
D) incensed the middle-class moderates. 
E) provoked Japan into declaring war on Russia.

Question 3

The quantum theory of energy developed by Max Planck raised fundamental questions about the

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A) structure of stars. 
B) accepted medieval theories of chemical reaction. 
C) subatomic realm of the atom and the basic building blocks of the material world. 
D) safe transmission of electrical energy for powering modern economies. 
E) the electro-dynamics of moving bodies. 
A) structure of stars. 
B) accepted medieval theories of chemical reaction. 
C) subatomic realm of the atom and the basic building blocks of the material world. 
D) safe transmission of electrical energy for powering modern economies. 
E) the electro-dynamics of moving bodies.

Question 4

Inquiry into the disintegrative processes within atoms became a central theme in the new physics in part due to the experimental work of

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A) Einstein on cosmic rays and gravity. 
B) Marie and Pierre Curie on radium and radiation. 
C) Planck on quanta. 
D) Pasteur on microbes and infection. 
E) Bergson on time and the "life force." 
A) Einstein on cosmic rays and gravity. 
B) Marie and Pierre Curie on radium and radiation. 
C) Planck on quanta. 
D) Pasteur on microbes and infection. 
E) Bergson on time and the "life force."

Question 5

Because of the lasting influence of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, there was little evidence of anti-Semitism in France at the end of the nineteenth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The primary antagonists in the Balkans region were

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A) Serbs and Austrians. 
B) Russians and French. 
C) English and Germans. 
D) Serbs and Croats. 
E) Russians and Serbs. 
A) Serbs and Austrians. 
B) Russians and French. 
C) English and Germans. 
D) Serbs and Croats. 
E) Russians and Serbs.

Question 7

Among the notable achievements of the British Liberals under Lloyd George was

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A) unilateral British disarmament and world peace proposals. 
B) passage of the National Insurance Act of 1911 providing sickness and unemployment benefits to workers. 
C) nationalization of all private industry in Britain. 
D) reductions in the size of the British colonial empire. 
E) to implement a policy of laissez-faire in economic and welfare matters. 
A) unilateral British disarmament and world peace proposals. 
B) passage of the National Insurance Act of 1911 providing sickness and unemployment benefits to workers. 
C) nationalization of all private industry in Britain. 
D) reductions in the size of the British colonial empire. 
E) to implement a policy of laissez-faire in economic and welfare matters.

Question 8

Modernism in music included all of the following elements EXCEPT

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A) attraction to the exotic. 
B) the exclusive use of extremely regular rhythms. 
C) nationalist themes. 
D) folk music. 
E) the lure of the primitive. 
A) attraction to the exotic. 
B) the exclusive use of extremely regular rhythms. 
C) nationalist themes. 
D) folk music. 
E) the lure of the primitive.

Question 9

What were the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1905?

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The Russian Revolution of 1905 was cause

Question 10

​The Congress of Berlin granted home rule to Ireland.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Social Darwinism was

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A) the application of the principle of organic evolution to the social order. 
B) an effort to explain the problems of society by psychological means. 
C) an explanation, sociologically, of Darwin's biological ideas. 
D) advocated by Nietzsche. 
E) condemned by Freud. 
A) the application of the principle of organic evolution to the social order. 
B) an effort to explain the problems of society by psychological means. 
C) an explanation, sociologically, of Darwin's biological ideas. 
D) advocated by Nietzsche. 
E) condemned by Freud.

Question 12

During the nineteenth century, Jews

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A) were persecuted in almost every European country. 
B) received complete emancipation in France and Germany. 
C) were emancipated in most countries, but still faced restrictions 
D) were not allowed into certain professions. 
E) achieved full social and legal equality in all the countries of Europe except Germany. 
A) were persecuted in almost every European country. 
B) received complete emancipation in France and Germany. 
C) were emancipated in most countries, but still faced restrictions 
D) were not allowed into certain professions. 
E) achieved full social and legal equality in all the countries of Europe except Germany.

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

The Meiji Restoration in Japan

The October Manifesto of Nicholas II

The quantum theory of energy developed by Max Planck raised fundamental questions about the

Inquiry into the disintegrative processes within atoms became a central theme in the new physics in part due to the experimental work of

Because of the lasting influence of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, there was little evidence of anti-Semitism in France at the end of the nineteenth century.

The primary antagonists in the Balkans region were

Among the notable achievements of the British Liberals under Lloyd George was

Modernism in music included all of the following elements EXCEPT

What were the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution of 1905?

​The Congress of Berlin granted home rule to Ireland.

Social Darwinism was

During the nineteenth century, Jews

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

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 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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The Congress of Berlin granted home rule to Ireland.