History MultipleChoice

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__________ is extreme patriotism, where the love for one’s nation is transformed into hatred for another nation and the desire to destroy the people from that other nation.

	Nationalism
	Xenophobia
	Jingoism
	Zionism

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2 of 40

Kulturkampf __________.

	was designed to reduce Jewish influence in Germany
	created liberal arts institutions throughout Germany
	attempted to unite Germany though a single artistic movement
	was an attack on the Catholic Church in Germany

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3 of 40

Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr all made major contributions in __________.

	modern physics, based on relativity and uncertainty
	classical physics, predicated on absolute and determined principles
	electricity and magnetism, building on the work of Ben Franklin
	the role radioactivity has for the improvement of the human condition

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4 of 40

__________ was a partnership among banks in which they regulated the movement of capital and interest rates by mutual agreement.

	A merger
	A chartered monopoly
	A cartel
	A consortium

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5 of 40

Which colony did the British regard as its most important?

	Egypt
	South Africa
	Morocco
	India

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6 of 40

__________, who was a member of the Russian nobility, became the leading anarchist spokesman in Europe.

	Prince Lvov
	Mikhail Bakunin
	Dmitri Potemkin
	Gregor Pogrom

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7 of 40

__________, who was supported by people (with money) who wanted a weaker parliamentary system, attempted to seize the French government in 1889.

	Etienne Foch
	Georges Boulanger
	Georges Cavaignac
	Alfred Dreyfus

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8 of 40

Which of the following demonstrates the geopolitical importance of Egypt to the British?

	It provided a coaling station for access to the Pacific.
	It provided a critical source of cotton fabric for sale in Asia.
	It permitted the British to protect access to lucrative markets in India.
	It allowed access to quinine and was the last link in global telegraph lines to India from London.

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9 of 40

Bismarck’s major goal before 1890 was __________.

	to absorb France
	world domination
	avoiding a two-front war
	eradicating all of Germany’s Jews

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10 of 40

The term “birth control” was first used by __________.

	Margaret Sanger
	Aletta Jacobs
	Marie Curie
	Emmeline Pankhurst

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11 of 40

__________ is the improvement of the human race through selective breeding.

	Syndicalism
	Eugenics
	Zionism
	Kulturkampf

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12 of 40

The __________ was the objective of European Zionism.

	establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
	overthrow of the Austrian government
	foundation of a European council of international Judaism
	creation of a pan-European banking house centered in Vienna

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13 of 40

Alfred Marshall devised a theory of __________ to allow producers to calculate costs and project profits based on a pattern of consumer response to price changes.

	competition
	price fluctuation
	marginal utility
	market identification

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14 of 40

Afrikaners were white settlers who had immigrated to South Africa. Most of them came from __________.

	The Netherlands
	Belgium
	France
	Germany

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15 of 40

__________ was the founder of Zionism in its political form.

	Sigmund Freud
	Theodor Herzl
	Theodor Mommsen
	Clara Zetkin

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16 of 40

__________ attacked science and the traditional religious beliefs of Western society.

	Carl Jung
	Sigmund Freud
	Friedrich Nietzsche
	Charles Darwin

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17 of 40

Poet Emilio Marinetti claimed, “We want to demolish museums and libraries.” He was a(n) __________.

	anarchist believing in destruction of Western culture
	futurist wishing to break free of the past
	revolutionary disgusted by the exploitation of workers
	nihilist who felt nothing made sense, so destruction was just as logical as anything else

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18 of 40

Which of the following individuals was NOT a Fabian?

	George Bernard Shaw
	Anne Besant
	David Lloyd George
	H. G. Wells

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19 of 40

Quinine is an effective treatment for __________.

	malaria
	measles
	dysentery
	typhus

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20 of 40

__________ was the only country in southeast Asia to escape direct control by Western powers.

	Thailand
	Laos
	Cambodia
	Vietnam

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21 of 40

__________ is the hatred of foreigners.

	Nationalism
	Xenophobia
	Jingoism
	Zionism

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22 of 40

German socialism was primarily __________ by the 1890s.

	anarchist
	revisionist
	syndicalist
	Marxist

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23 of 40

__________ was a British financier who attempted to overthrow the Afrikaner rule in the Transvaal Republic.

	Winston Churchill
	Joseph Chamberlain
	Cecil Rhodes
	Rudyard Kipling

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24 of 40

__________ was NOT a member of the Three Emperors’ League.

	Austria-Hungary
	Germany
	Italy
	Russia

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25 of 40

The right to vote was finally gained by women in the United States and Europe __________.

	between 1850 and 1870
	between 1870 and 1890
	immediately prior to WWI (1914)
	over the period of time between the end of WWI and the end of WWII

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26 of 40

__________ wrote about “the White Man’s burden.”

	Herbert Spencer
	Karl Pearson
	Charles Darwin
	Rudyard Kipling

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27 of 40

__________ meant foreigners were exempt from Chinese law enforcement while in China and could be judged only by officials of their own countries.

	Diplomatic exemption
	Spheres of influence
	Consequent legality
	Extraterritoriality

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28 of 40

Germany’s future lay in the hands of Emperor Wilhelm II after 1890 because of all of the following EXCEPT:

	Strong-willed, effective chancellors had manipulated the political system.
	The emperor’s high-risk foreign policy had obtained mass appeal within the empire.
	The Reichstag had failed to defy the authoritarian rule of the emperor.
	The state bureaucracy, the military and various interest groups could benefit from authoritarian rule if they could exercise influence over the emperor.

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29 of 40

__________ are combinations of firms in any given industry that are united in order to fix prices and establish production quotas.

	Mergers
	Chartered monopolies
	Cartels
	Consortiums

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30 of 40

Which of the following is the correct list of Triple Alliance members?

	Great Britain, France, Italy
	Italy, Germany, Russia
	Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany
	Russia, France, Great Britain

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31 of 40

What nation’s entry into the colonial race in southern Africa eventually led to the Boer Wars?

	The Netherlands
	Belgium
	France
	Germany

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32 of 40

An impressionist landscape painting would __________.

	show every blade of grass
	convey the artist’s feelings about the scene
	show nature to be ugly
	be best viewed standing close to the canvas

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33 of 40

All of the following EXCEPT __________ were used by the French Third Republic in an attempt to create a common national identity.

	compulsory army service
	compulsory schooling
	control of information from the government center (Paris)
	successful establishment of political stability

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34 of 40

The Dreyfus Affair __________.

	proved the major role of the press and the importance of public opinion in putting pressure on the government
	indicated anti-Semitism and hatred of Germans were both declining in France
	uncovered a Jewish plot to overthrow the French government
	demonstrated the strength of existing parliamentary institutions in France

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35 of 40

Which of the following was an outcome of the Boer War?

	The British recognized the formal independence of the Boer Republics.
	The British promised that no political decisions regarding the majority black population’s political role would be made without returning power to Afrikaners.
	The British withdrew from South Africa and returned the region to Boer rule.
	It led to World War I and the end of African colonization.

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36 of 40

All of the following EXCEPT __________ were exalted by the futurists.

	technology
	change
	violence
	nature

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37 of 40

__________ was a major commodity in British exports to China.

	Silk
	Tobacco
	Opium
	Tea

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38 of 40

The Trade Unions Act of 1913 __________.

	made unions illegal
	granted unions legal rights to settle grievances with management
	outlawed strikes
	created a union board of regulation

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39 of 40

__________ was the first Labour representative elected to the House of Commons.

	David Lloyd George
	Sydney Webb
	Ramsey McMullen
	James Keir Hardie

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40 of 40

__________ was the French novelist whose writings helped exonerate Dreyfus.

	Gustave Flaubert
	Honoré Balzac
	Émile Zola
	Francois Voltaire