Question 1

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Dardanelles and Sevastopol

Accepted Answer

The Dardanelles and Sevastopol are both

Question 2

Vera Zasulich

Accepted Answer

A)  tried to prevent the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. 
B)  assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
C)  was the mistress of Tsar Alexander II. 
D)  shot and wounded the governor-general of Saint Petersburg. 
E)  killed the governor-general of Saint Petersburg. 
A)  tried to prevent the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. 
B)  assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
C)  was the mistress of Tsar Alexander II. 
D)  shot and wounded the governor-general of Saint Petersburg. 
E)  killed the governor-general of Saint Petersburg.

Question 3

Elizabeth Blackwell

Accepted Answer

A)  was England's first female member of Parliament. 
B)  became the first formally educated female doctor in America. 
C)  was England's first great feminist leader. 
D)  became renowned as a painter specializing in realist art. 
E)  was one of England's first female publishers and book-dealers. 
A)  was England's first female member of Parliament. 
B)  became the first formally educated female doctor in America. 
C)  was England's first great feminist leader. 
D)  became renowned as a painter specializing in realist art. 
E)  was one of England's first female publishers and book-dealers.

Question 4

Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus' theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be struggle for existence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

As chancellor of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck

Accepted Answer

A)  instituted vital liberal land reforms. 
B)  largely bypassed parliament in pursuing his political goals of military modernization. 
C)  was totally dependent on the Prussian military. 
D)  was extremely unpopular among ordinary Germans. 
E)  opposed any wars, always relying upon diplomacy as alternatives. 
A)  instituted vital liberal land reforms. 
B)  largely bypassed parliament in pursuing his political goals of military modernization. 
C)  was totally dependent on the Prussian military. 
D)  was extremely unpopular among ordinary Germans. 
E)  opposed any wars, always relying upon diplomacy as alternatives.

Question 6

In the Italian War of 1859, Piedmont was allied with

Accepted Answer

A)  Russia. 
B)  England. 
C)  Austria. 
D)  Prussia. 
E)  France. 
A)  Russia. 
B)  England. 
C)  Austria. 
D)  Prussia. 
E)  France.

Question 7

The reforms of Tsar Alexander II centered around

Accepted Answer

A)  government sponsorship of popular societies like the Bolsheviks. 
B)  improvements in the military. 
C)  the abolition of serfdom. 
D)  the formation of local, self-governing assemblies called "dumas." 
E)  nationalizing all the lands of Russia, putting them under state control. 
A)  government sponsorship of popular societies like the Bolsheviks. 
B)  improvements in the military. 
C)  the abolition of serfdom. 
D)  the formation of local, self-governing assemblies called "dumas." 
E)  nationalizing all the lands of Russia, putting them under state control.

Question 8

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Franz Liszt

Accepted Answer

Franz Liszt was a Hungarian composer, vi

Question 9

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Louis Pasteur

Accepted Answer

Louis Pasteur was a French chemist and m

Question 10

How did the expansion of scientific knowledge affect the Western world view and the everyday lives of Europeans during the mid-nineteenth century? How does this expansion of scientific knowledge differ from that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Accepted Answer

The expansion of scientific knowledge du

Question 11

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Elizabeth Blackwell

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell was a pioneering fig

Question 12

The First International

Accepted Answer

A)  failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital. 
B)  became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. 
C)  was rejected by Marx as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." 
D)  served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. 
E)  led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848. 
A)  failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital. 
B)  became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century. 
C)  was rejected by Marx as a "bourgeois-dominated institution." 
D)  served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests. 
E)  led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.

Question 13

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Reform Act of 1867

Accepted Answer

The Reform Act of 1867 was a significant

Question 14

Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man

Accepted Answer

A)  is filled with expressions of doubt and hesitancy over the new evolutionary theories. 
B)  proposed the first theory of genetic mutations. 
C)  argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time. 
D)  placed humans in the center of a rational universe. 
E)  predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature. 
A)  is filled with expressions of doubt and hesitancy over the new evolutionary theories. 
B)  proposed the first theory of genetic mutations. 
C)  argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time. 
D)  placed humans in the center of a rational universe. 
E)  predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.

Question 15

Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification,

Accepted Answer

A)  instituted the Zollverein, the German customs union that drove industrial development. 
B)  followed a rigid plan for national unification at all costs. 
C)  was a liberal from lower class origins who used politics to achieve his reform goals. 
D)  practiced Realpolitik in conducting domestic and foreign policy. 
E)  relied upon the diplomatic and military support of the Habsburgs in the Austro-Prussian War. 
A)  instituted the Zollverein, the German customs union that drove industrial development. 
B)  followed a rigid plan for national unification at all costs. 
C)  was a liberal from lower class origins who used politics to achieve his reform goals. 
D)  practiced Realpolitik in conducting domestic and foreign policy. 
E)  relied upon the diplomatic and military support of the Habsburgs in the Austro-Prussian War.

Question 16

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Michael Faraday

Accepted Answer

Michael Faraday was a British scientist

Question 17

The germ theory of disease was primarily the work of

Accepted Answer

A)  Charles Darwin. 
B)  Joseph Lister. 
C)  Louis Pasteur. 
D)  Friedrich Engels. 
E)  Samuel Gross. 
A)  Charles Darwin. 
B)  Joseph Lister. 
C)  Louis Pasteur. 
D)  Friedrich Engels. 
E)  Samuel Gross.

Question 18

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Accepted Answer

Madame Bovary is a novel written by Gust

Question 19

As a consequence of her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, France had to

Accepted Answer

A)  pay an indemnity to Prussia of five billion Francs. 
B)  abandon Nice and Marseilles. 
C)  give the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Prussia, a loss leaving the French set on revenge. 
D)  try Napoleon III for war crimes before a Prussian tribunal. 
E)  a and c 
A)  pay an indemnity to Prussia of five billion Francs. 
B)  abandon Nice and Marseilles. 
C)  give the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Prussia, a loss leaving the French set on revenge. 
D)  try Napoleon III for war crimes before a Prussian tribunal. 
E)  a and c

Question 20

The Russian group People's Will

Accepted Answer

A)  was the nickname for zemstvos. 
B)  was the nickname for the Tsar's secret police. 
C)  assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
D)  tried, but failed, to assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
E)  was a popular children's theater in Moscow. 
A)  was the nickname for zemstvos. 
B)  was the nickname for the Tsar's secret police. 
C)  assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
D)  tried, but failed, to assassinated Tsar Alexander II. 
E)  was a popular children's theater in Moscow.

Exam 22: an Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

IDENTIFICATIONS -Dardanelles and Sevastopol

Vera Zasulich

Elizabeth Blackwell

Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus' theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be struggle for existence.

As chancellor of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck

In the Italian War of 1859, Piedmont was allied with

The reforms of Tsar Alexander II centered around

IDENTIFICATIONS -Franz Liszt

IDENTIFICATIONS -Louis Pasteur

How did the expansion of scientific knowledge affect the Western world view and the everyday lives of Europeans during the mid-nineteenth century? How does this expansion of scientific knowledge differ from that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

IDENTIFICATIONS -Elizabeth Blackwell

The First International

IDENTIFICATIONS -Reform Act of 1867

Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man

Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian-born leader of German unification,

IDENTIFICATIONS -Michael Faraday

The germ theory of disease was primarily the work of

IDENTIFICATIONS -Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

As a consequence of her defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, France had to

The Russian group People's Will

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

mass Society in an "Age of Progress," 1871-1894

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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