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"mass education"

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"

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Charles Darwin presented a theory of evolution that

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A)   claimed humans were aggregations of atomic attraction and radiomagnetic induction.
B)   stated that all living things are involved in a struggle to survive.
C)   excluded human beings from the process of natural selection.
D)   strengthened the concept of the universe possessing purpose and design.
E)   made human beings unique entities in the natural world.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 4

Which of the following was true of developments in the United States through the Civil War?

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A)   Mass white male electoral participation was instituted during the era of Andrew Jackson.
B)   Liberal social policies gave every inhabitant 1000 acres of free land.
C)   Westward expansion kept slavery a relatively minor issue until 1870.
D)   United States cotton production peaked in 1820 and dropped steadily after that.
E)   While lengthy, the Civil War did not involve many major battles or high casualty lists.F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

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Theodor Herzl and Zionism

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Which of the following is not an example of Romanticism?

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A)   Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreaker
B)   Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
C)   Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"
D)   Caspar David Friedrich's Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
E)   Eugene Delacroix's Women of AlgiersF) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 7

The liberators of Venezuela and Argentina,respectively,were

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A)   Simón Bolívar and José de San Martín.
B)   Augustín de Iturbide and Toussaint Prado.
C)   José de San Martín and Alfonso Stroessner.
D)   Santa Ana and Toussaint L'Ouverture.
E)   Benito Juarez and Vicente Rojas.F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 8

An early leader in the drive to professionalize nursing for women was

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A)   Francoise Jourdain in Belgium.
B)   Amalie Jones in Great Britain.
C)   Clara Barton in the United States.
D)   Nora Ibsen in Norway.
E)   Sylvia Pankhurst in Germany.F) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 9

In the effort to develop adequate housing for Europe's workers,

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A)   western European governments built public housing complexes beginning in the 1820s.
B)   by the 1880s, there was an expansion of the role of government in providing housing.
C)   city governments ignored this pressing social need in the years before World War I, except in Tallinn and Johannesburg.
D)   the power of the liberal concept of minimized government produced no public action in this area.
E)   Britain, notably, did nothing to aid its workers until after the Liverpool riot and fire of 1903.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 10

Emiliano Zapata

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A)   advocated exterminating the Indians in the northern part of the country while serving as Mexico's "elected caudillo."
B)   was the second husband of Florence Nightingale.
C)   urged his peasant followers to seize the estates of the Mexican elite.
D)   was a close associate of United States President Woodrow Wilson.
E)   admired Porfirio DiazF) B) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 11

Romanticism in the arts was primarily a phenomenon of the first half of the nineteenth century while Realism was mainly a manifestation of the latter nineteenth century.What were the main characteristics of Romanticism and Realism? Were there any relationships of those two movements to the political,social,and economic developments of the century? If so,what?

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Question 12

Professional mass sporting events provided people with

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A)   "bread and circuses," as both Marx and Bismarck, ironically, noted.
B)   a direct, participatory role in the events they attended.
C)   highly organized activities with extensive rules and officials to enforce them.
D)   professional rugby matches staged by the American League.
E)   an extension of their normal Sunday religious activities.F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 13

The late nineteenth century advocate of a separate Jewish state was

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A)   Albert Einstein.
B)   Theodor Herzl.
C)   Adolph Hitler.
D)   Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
E)   Max Planck.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

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Charles Darwin's Origin of Species/The Descent of Man

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All of the following were true about family life at the turn of the century except

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A)   the availability of low-wage servants freed middle-class women from household labor.
B)   the use of birth control became more popular.
C)   family-oriented social life had become firmly established.
D)   women in working-class families were accustomed to hard work, beginning at the age of nine or ten.
E)   declining infant mortality rates enhanced the trend toward steadily larger families.F) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 16

Social Darwinism was given

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A)   a psychological dimension by Sigmund Freud.
B)   a racial interpretation by Houston Stewart Chamberlain.
C)   a scientific interpretation by Max Planck.
D)   an economic interpretation by Adam Smith.
E)   an artistic interpretation by Vincent von Gogh.F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 17

The European working classes at the end of the nineteenth century constituted almost

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A)   25 percent of the population.
B)   40 percent of the population
C)   55 percent of the population.
D)   80 percent of the population.
E)   95 percent of the population.F) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 18

What are the possible explanations why representative government and democracy was so slow to develop in most Latin American countries? Were the reasons historical? Cultural? Environmental? Economic? Or something else?

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Question 19

Francisco Madero

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Question 20

Which of the following was an Impressionist artist?

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A)   Berthe Morisot
B)   Vincent van Gogh
C)   Gustav Dore
D)   Pablo Picasso
E)   Caspar David FriedrichF) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

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