Question 1

What was the name given to the growing number of women who challenged accepted views of women's dependence and seclusion in the home at the beginning of the twentieth century?

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A)  The Missionary Woman 
B)  The Good Wives 
C)  The Sisters of Modernity 
D)  The New Woman

Question 2

According to this map, Great Britain controlled which of the following territories during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
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A)  Indochina 
B)  The East Indies 
C)  India 
D)  Korea

Question 3

How would you characterize the imperialist policies of European nations and the United States in the early twentieth century? How did those being colonized react to these policies? Provide examples to support your answer.
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Question 4

Violent attacks against Jews in Russia were known as

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A)  Pinskers. 
B)  Zions. 
C)  pogroms. 
D)  ghettos.

Question 5

Explain the ways in which technology, bureaucracies, economics, and ideologies shaped the military forces of European nations by the early twentieth century. How were armies changing? In what ways were they more powerful? How might these changes in themselves have increased the possibility of war?

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Question 6

Which of the following marriage reforms did Europeans propose in the late nineteenth century?

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A)  Making it harder to obtain a divorce if a couple had no children 
B)  Allowing people to remarry quickly after being widowed and allowing women to bring their property with them 
C)  Building public housing to give couples more privacy and encouraging young couples to move to the countryside 
D)  Giving women equal control of finances in marriage, legalizing divorce, and providing government subsidies for mothers

Question 7

How did V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) come to prominence in Russian Marxist circles?

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A)  He took over the Socialist Revolutionaries after stating that he wanted to destroy the Russian government through violent means. 
B)  He was elected leader of the Duma after he gained the support of the growing liberal faction in Moscow. 
C)  He had the leader of the Mensheviks murdered, leaving the faction in disarray and in search of a new, charismatic leader. 
D)  He used his Bolshevik faction to outflank the Mensheviks at an important party meeting in 1903.

Question 8

Why are denunciations of Jews and socialists by right-wing and nationalist groups in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century considered a departure from rational debate, and what consequences did such politics have?

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Question 9

Many educated Europeans at the turn of the twentieth century believed in a set of ideas called eugenics, which argued that

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A)  humans could produce "superior" people through selective breeding and that it was their national duty to prevent the disabled and other "inferior" degenerates from reproducing. 
B)  astrology, metaphysics, and spirit forces could be scientifically proven through psychical research and Eastern philosophies. 
C)  the invisible hand of the market was the only guiding force in the social and political order. 
D)  a universal language known as Esperanto should be taught to all children as a means of creating a global, unified culture.

Question 10

In France, anti-Semitism became a hotly contested political issue with the 1894 arrest of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer, for espionage, particularly after

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A)  conservative National Assembly leaders admitted having hired someone to plant the evidence found in Dreyfus's office. 
B)  the German government acknowledged that Dreyfus had indeed passed military secrets to German embassy officials. 
C)  Dreyfus leaked a military memorandum that revealed widespread anti-Semitism in the French army. 
D)  Émile Zola published an article titled "J'accuse" on the front page of a popular Paris newspaper.

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of the power of European working classes at the turn of the century?

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A)  The election of working-class mayors in Berlin, Paris, and London 
B)  The creation of planned housing developments subsidized by governments to court workers' votes 
C)  The election of women to prominent political positions in several European countries 
D)  The election of candidates from workers' political parties to national legislatures

Question 12

How did the Italian prime minister Giovanni Giolitti respond to the urban working classes and rural laborers who demanded political change in the years before World War I?

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A)  He ordered the Italian military to brutally suppress workers' strikes and political rallies. 
B)  He instituted a national draft and sent thousands of men overseas in an attempt to capture more territory for the Italian empire. 
C)  He instituted social welfare programs and nearly universal manhood suffrage. 
D)  He invested huge amounts of money in economic development projects, especially in southern Italy.

Question 13

What reforms did the Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin introduce in order to end peasant unrest, and why did they fail to achieve their purpose?

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Question 14

Why did nationalist and anti-Semitic politics flourish in late-nineteenth-century Germany?

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A)  Rural landowners feared that wealthy Jews moving from urban areas were taking over their land. 
B)  As agriculture declined due to industrialization and agrarian elites lost power, they blamed Jews for destroying traditional society. 
C)  Jewish political parties gained major victories in the Reichstag, causing a backlash among conservative elites. 
D)  A major influx of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe drained German resources, prompting resentment from the German population.

Question 15

How and why did private life become a public affair in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? How did population pressures affect debates about Europeans' private lives? In what ways did governments intervene in the private lives of European men and women?

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Question 16

Which of the following did politicians and social theorists in the late nineteenth century blame for what they feared was a marked decline in fertility?

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A)  Dangerous working conditions for working-class women 
B)  The growing availability of birth control 
C)  Higher infant mortality rates caused by disease 
D)  Late marriages among the working class

Question 17

According to this map, which of the following nations was part of the Triple Alliance from 1882 through 1915?
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A)  Great Britain 
B)  France 
C)  Russia 
D)  Germany

Question 18

How did the relationship between science and society evolve in the late nineteenth century?

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Question 19

This map of Africa in 1914 justifies which of the following statements?
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A)  The Spanish and the Germans were Africa's major colonizing powers. 
B)  Africans, like Asians, were challenging their European colonizers at this time. 
C)  European powers had claimed the entirety of the continent by World War I. 
D)  Industrialization had begun in earnest in South Africa only in 1914.

Question 20

How did audiences react to the Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring and to premieres of musical works by Arnold Schoenberg, and what caused this reaction? How were this style of dance and Schoenberg's music representative of the changes gripping modern music and dance?

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Exam 24: Modernity and the Road to War, 1890-1914

What was the name given to the growing number of women who challenged accepted views of women's dependence and seclusion in the home at the beginning of the twentieth century?

According to this map, Great Britain controlled which of the following territories during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? ​ ​

How would you characterize the imperialist policies of European nations and the United States in the early twentieth century? How did those being colonized react to these policies? Provide examples to support your answer. ​