(Practice Test 1) 1. Martin Luther initially criticized the Roman Catholic church on the grounds that it.....
D. used indulgences as a fund raising device
(Practice Test 1) 2. Religion supplies the pretext and gold the motive..... this statement was a contemporary characterization of
E. Spanish and Portuguese expansion in the New World
(Practice Test 1) 3. During the great witchcraft persecutions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, those most often tried as witches were.....
C. Older Women
(Practice Test 1) 4. During the early industrial revolution, the leading industry was the manufacture of
B. Textiles
(Practice Test 1) 5. The painting of Napoleon shown above (on page 14) portrays him as which of the following.....
D. An imperial ruler
(Practice Test 1) 6. In "On the Origin of Species", Charles Darwin addresses the....
C. Transmutation over time of plant and animal life
(Practice Test 1) 7. Which of the following was a major demographic change in Western Europe between 1850 and 1914........
A. A dramatic shift in population to urban areas
(Practice Test 1) 8. Which of the following is one of Sigmund Freud's most significant contribution to 20th century thought?
B. Unconscious psychological energy is sexual energy
(Practice Test 1) 9. On a map (seen on page 16) the shaded area is known as....
D. Serbia
(Practice Test 1) 10. Which of the following best describes the Nazi party's ideal role for "Aryan" women in Germany
A. They were to be mothers, wives and homemakers
(Practice Test 1) 11. The table seen on page 17 that depicts age composition of the British population describes what......
E. The average age of the British population was higher in 1967 than in 1841
(Practice Test 1) 12. "In conformity, therefore, to the clear doctrine of the Scripture, we assert that by an eternal and immutable counsel, God has once and for all determined, but whom he would admit to salvation, and whom he would condemn to destructio
D. John Calvin
(Practice Test 1) 13. Which of the following is true of the German Peasants' Revolt of 1524-1525?
E. The revolt resulted from a combination of new religious ideas and peasant demands.
(Practice Test 1) 14. Which of the following explorers, sailing under the flag of Portugal, reached the west coast of India in 1498 after rounding the Cape of Good Hope and crossing the Indian Ocean?
B. Vasco de Gama
(Practice Test 1) 15. Which of the following was an important consequence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689?
A. Limits were put on the power of the English monarchy.
(Practice Test 1) 16. The Russian woodcut seen on page 18 (from about 1698) symbolizes Peter the Great's....
C. Imposition of Western values on the Russian nobility
(Practice Test 1) 17. Couples in early modern Europe generally put off marriage until they were, on average, in their mid to late twenties because....
C. They needed to acquire land or a trade before they could support a family
(Practice Test 1) 18. "The law is the expression of the general will. All citizens have a right to concur either personally or by their representatives in its formation. The law should be the same for all, whether it protects or whether it punishes".... b
B. Jean-Jacques Rosseau
(Practice Test 1) 19. Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, became the center of public attention because of her....
B. participation in politics and use of the monarchy for personal gain.
(Practice Test 1) 20. What was generally supported by the mercantilitst?
D. Development of colonies
(Practice Test 1) 21. The list of grievances, or "Cahiers de doleances", brought by the members of the Estates- General to Versailles in 1789 called for.....
C. Tax equity
(Practice Test 1) 22. What was a common theme among 19th century Utopian socialists?
C. Advocacy of social and economic planning
(Practice Test 1) 23. What can be said to accurately describe the Napoleonic code?
D. It protected private property and the authority of husbands within the family
(Practice Test 1) 24. In "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels asserted that......
B. Capitalism was a necessary stage of economic and social development
(Practice Test 1) 25. Claude Monet is associated with the beginnings of the artistic movement known as.....
B. Impressionism
(Practice Test 1) 26. "No prudent master of a family ever attempts to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it from them with some
B. Free trade in the early 19th century Great Britain
(Practice Test 1) 27. After unification in the late 19th century, the new state of Italy faced all of the following except:
A. hostility from the Vatican
B. an inequitable taxation system
C. A continued rift between the north and the south
D. heavy govern
E. a labor shortage
(Practice Test 1) 28. What was a result of Einstein's publication of the special theory of relativity in 1905?
E. Basic assumptions of classical physics about space and time had to be revised
(Practice Test 1) 29. Which of the following best characterizes European art and literature in the 1920s?
A. Questioning of accepted values and practices
B. A rejection of atheism and socialism
C. A reaffirmation of human beauty and goodness
D. A resurrec
A. Questioning of accepted values and practices
(Practice Test 1) 30. The purges carried out in the Soviet Union during the 1930s resulted in.....
D. the elimination of the old Bolshevik elite
(Practice Test 1) 31. The purpose of the British poster showing a little girl on her dad's lap asking "what did you do to help the great war, daddy" was created to.....
A. shame able bodied men into volunteering for military service
(Practice Test 1) 32. "... we are for a socialism that is proper to a highly developed country and is devoid of those repulsive features imposed upon our country by a handful of narrow-minded, dogmatic, power-hungry careerists and unscrupulous despots. We
E. a Czech dissident in 1969
(Practice Test 1) 33. Renaissance humanism drew its main inspiration from....
B. classical languages and literature
(Practice Test 1) 34. Major Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders of the 16th century condemned the Anabaptists because Anabaptists...
C. advocated from a complete separation from church and state
(Practice Test 1) 35. Ferdinand and Isabella supported the expulsion or conversion of Muslims and Jews in Spain because.....
A. Ferdinand and Isabella were hostile to religious faiths other then Christianity
(Practice Test 1) 36. Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon contributed to scientific development in the 17th century by
E. articulating theories of the scientific method
(Practice Test 1) 37. The leadership of the Dutch revolts (1566-1648) sought all of the following except:
A. an alliance with the English Catholics
B. the end of the Inquisition
C. the end of excessive taxation
D. the elimination of the rule of foreign of
A. an alliance with the English Catholics
(Practice Test 1) 38. "The pasteurizing stock is allowed in peace to eat up the food on the pastures to its utmost limits, thus the stock returns more ample profit to the farmer. In managing arable lands, the farmer derives other solid advantages such as
A. Enclosure of common lands
(Practice Test 1) 39. The long term effect of the 30 years war on the German states was to....
D. devastate the German states' economies
(Practice Test 1) 40. The map above best supports which of the following statements? (page 22)
D. The population of industrial regions grew most rapidly
(Practice Test 1) 41. The Prussian victory over Austria in 1866 resulted in....
C. The consolidation of Prussian authority among North German states
(Practice Test 1) 42. During the 19th century and 20th century, the first European country to experience a dramatic decrease in its birth rate was.....
A. France
(Practice Test 1) 43. In the 1930's, one of the effects of the Great Depression in Europe was....
E. the broadening of popular support for the Nazi party in Germany
(Practice Test 1) 44. What was a major achievement of Soviet society during the Khrushchev years?
A. Soviet space successes exceeded those of the US
(Practice Test 1) 45. Martin Luther believed that the most important role for Christian woman was to....
C. become a wife and mother
(Practice Test 1) 46. John Calvin established the center of his reformed church in....
D. Geneva
(Practice Test 1) 47. The primary purpose of the Peace of Augsburg (1555) was to....
B. End the civil war between Lutherans and Roman Catholics in the German states.
(Practice Test 1) 48. The Scientific Revolution overturned teh accepted ideas of which of the following.....
A. Aristotle
(Practice Test 1) 49. Which of the following best expresses Voltaire's views concering religion?
D. Organized religion perpetuates superstition and ignorance
(Practice Test 1) 50. The repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1846 was most strongly opposed by.....
C. Wealthy landowners
(Practice Test 1) 51. The Crystal Palace was built in London in 1851 primarily as a....
C. Celebration of British technological and economic dominance
(Practice Test 1) 52. Between 1870 and 1914, the heavily industrialized nations of Western Europe earned the loyalty of their citizens by all of the following EXCEPT:
A. Extending the right to vote to almost all adult males
B. Acquiring colonies to promot
It did not gain support by....
C. dividing farm land equally among peasants
(Practice Test 1) 53. The constitution of Weimar Germany helped to undermine the republican form of government by....
A. providing for rule by a single individual in cases of national emergency.
(Practice Test 1) 54. Which of the following was a result of the mMarshall Plan
E. US political and economic influence increased in Western and Southern Europe
(Practice Test 1) 55. What describes a major difference between northern humanists and Italian humanists?
E. Both looked to classical source, but northern humanists also emphasized Christian sources
(Practice Test 1) 56. The system of intendants was established in 17th century France primarily to
B. implement royal policies locally
-they did collect taxes, but their main job was keeping order
(Practice Test 1) 57. The acquisition of which of the following territories during the mid 18th century helped to establish Prussia as a great power
D. Silesia
(Practice Test 1) 58. "These writers extolled, often in an exaggerated form, the expression of human emotion and the search for realization of one's own identity.".... these writers were often associated with.....
E. Romanticism
(Practice Test 1) 59. The painting of women rioting commemorates the women's march on Versailles in October 1789. This shows that.....
C. Women helped the progress of the revolution
(Practice Test 1) 60. The rebuilding of Paris during the 1850's and teh 1860's resulted in.....
D. The destruction of much working class housing
- it did help prevent revolts too, but this is the best answer...
(Practice Test 1) 61. Which of the following best describes Lenin's New Economic Policy?
D. A compromise with capitalist economic principles
(Practice Test 1) 62. The French and British policy of appeasing Mussolini and Hitler can be partially explained by...
D. The belief that the terms of the Versailles treaty were unjust
(Practice Test 1) 63. In early modern Europe, which of the following most directly undermined the guild system?
A. Entrepreneurial expansion of manufacturing into the countryside
(Practice Test 1) 64. The sculpture by Bernini (with the Angel and the person and the light... x)) celebrates....
E. Catholic Reformation mysticism
(Practice Test 1) 65. "I will allow that bodily strength seems to give man a natural superiority over woman; and this is the only solid basis on which the superiority of men over women can be built"... this argument best reflects the views of...
C. Mary Wollstonecraft
(Practice Test 1) 66. The policy of extending the French Revolution beyond France's borders was most closely associated with the....
D. Girondin party
(Practice Test 1) 67. On which of the following did Cavour and Garibaldi agree?
A. Italy should be a republic when united.
B.Italy should be independent of foreign control
C. Italian unity should be achieved by revolution
D. The pope should lead a new Ita
B. Italy should be independent of foreign control
(Practice Test 1) 68.What resulted from the Russian Revolution of 1905?
E. The creation of the Duma
(Practice Test 1) 69. What resulted from the close relationship between science and government in industrialized nations during the Second World War?
C. Much scientific research became financially dependent on military funding
(Practice Test 1) 70. After Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, what city came to be known as the "third Rome"?
A. Moscow
-Constantinople is the second Rome
(Practice Test 1) 71. What was an economic policy of Louis XIV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
C. Establishing detailed manufacturing codes to improve the quality of French export goods
(Practice Test 1) 72. Just as the reign of Louis XIV of France is often cited as an example of absolutism, the reign of Joseph II of Austria is often cited as an example of....
D. Enlightened monarchy
(Practice Test 1) 73. In the 17th and 18th century Prussia, the Junkers supported the monarchy and served in the army in return for.....
E. virtually absolute power over their serfs
(Practice Test 1) 74. Prior to the expansion of the factory system during the Industrial Revolution, what contributed to the increase in production of manufactured goods?
C. Expansion of cottage industries in the countryside
(Practice Test 1) 75. What was the most important factor behind the Price Revolution of the 16th century?
A. Steady population growth and rising food costs
(Practice Test 1) 76. The gradual decline of the Ottoman Empire which occurred during the 19th century created the most serious political and diplomatic tension between.....
B. Austria and Russia
(Practice Test 1) 77. The shaded areas on the map of early 18th century France (near the English channel and the Mediterranean Sea) represent....
B. Territorial acquisitions during the reign of Louis XIV
(Practice Test 1) 78. Which of the following advocated an evolutionary, as opposed to a revolutionary, theory of Marxism?
A. Eduard Bernstein
B. VI Lenin
C. Rosa Luxemburg
D. Joseph Stalin
E. Leon Trotsky
A. Eduard Bernstein
(Practice Test 1) 79. Metternich would have been most in sympathy with the political philosophy of....
A. John Locke
B. Robert Owen
C. Charles Fourier
D. Edmund Burke
E. Giuseppe Mazzini
D. Edmund Burke
-He wrote a book against revolution
(Practice Test 1) 80. A major goal of the EEC (European Economic Community) was to....
E. coordinate industrial and agricultural policies of the members
(Practice Test 3) 50. "Where liberal parties, now liberal only in name, remain in power, they embraced protectionism and imperialism, undertook social regulation, and retained from the old liberal creed only opposition to the extension of the franchise an
D. 1880-1905
(Practice Test 3) 51. "Where liberal parties, now liberal only in name, remain in power, they embraced protectionism and imperialism, undertook social regulation, and retained from the old liberal creed only opposition to the extension of the franchise an
B. The rise of industrial society and of mass political movements
(Practice Test 3) 52. What idea did Darwin draw on in developing his theories of evolution?
E. The population theories of Thomas Malthus
(Practice Test 3) 53. The 19th century English cartoon (depicting a skeleton in a boat in a river full of crap) shows.....
C. The pollution resulting from industrialization
(Practice Test 3) 54. The immediate cause of the 1905 Russian Revolution was social strain resulting from....
E. Russian losses in the Russo-Japanese War
(Practice Test 3) 55. According to the graph seen on page 18, which class in 16th century England benefited most from the trends shown?
A. Landowners
(Practice Test 3) 56. Which of the following was a primary result of the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
C. The limitation of monarchical power
(Practice Test 3) 57. Important prerequisites for Great Britain's industrialization in the mid 18th century included which of the following?
A. Innovations in agricultural techniques and increases in food production
B. Dramatic improvement in workers' hou
A. Innovations in agricultural techniques and increases in food production
(Practice Test 3) 58. The shaded areas on the map on page 19 represent.....
A. Dynastic lands of the Hapsburgs in the 16th century
(Practice Test 3) 59. Which of the following European countries experienced the greatest degree of political instability in the 19th century?
A. Austria
B. France
C. The Netherlands
D. Prussia
E. Russia
B. France (think of the French Revolution- Revolutions of 1848)
(Practice Test 3) 60. When Sigmund Freud remarked that "in mental life nothing which has once been formed can perish," he meant that....
D. the unconscious preserves unpleasant as well as pleasant thought
(Practice Test 3) 61. The chronologically arranged maps above illustrate the.... (seen on page 20)
A. concluding phases of the Franco-Prussian war
(Practice Test 3) 62. Which of the following ideas is common to the works of both Karl Marx and the classical economists?
A. The overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the revolutionary proletariat is inevitable.
B. Class struggle is the mechanism of historical
D. The value of a product is largely determined by the value of the labor used to produce it
(Practice Test 3) 63. During the last third of the 19th century, new industries, such as those producing electric power and chemicals, advanced most rapidly in which of the following European countries?
C. Germany
(Practice Test 3) 64. "What the breechloader, the machine gun, the steamboat, the steamship, quinine, and other innovations did was to lower the cost in both financial and human terms of penetrating, conquering and exploiting new territories. So cost-effe
B. The power of European technology provided the mechanism that made imperialism cheap and easy
(Practice Test 3) 65. All of the following were invented in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries except:
A. Firearms
B. Movable printing type
C. The compound microscope
D. The compass
E. The flying shuttle
E. The flying shuttle
(Practice Test 3) 66. "It was an important confederation of commercial towns in northern Germany with its own laws, diplomats and flags. Its membership of merchants earned large profits shipping fish, timber and other resources to areas to the west and to
B. The Hanseatic League
(Practice Test 3) 67. In the 16th century, all of the following had religious civil wars or political insurrections EXCEPT:
A. Muscovite Russia
B. England
C. The Low Countries
D. France
E. The German States
A. Muscovite Russia
(Practice Test 3) 68. The teachings of who had the greatest impact on the Reformation in Scotland?
B. John Calvin
(Practice Test 3) 69. Mercantilism was principally characterized by....
A. Government efforts to build a strong, self-sufficient economy
(Practice Test 3) 70. In the late 17th century, which of the following countries led continental Europe in shipbuilding, navigation, and commerce and banking?
C. The Netherlands
(Practice Test 3) 71. In 18th century Europe, the most important imperial rivalry existed between which 3 countries?
E. Spain, France and Great Britain
(Practice Test 3) 72. All of the following occurred as a result of the settlements reached at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) EXCEPT:
A. A balance of power was reestablished
B. Belgium was united with the Netherlands under the House of Orange.
C. The n
D. Italy was unified under Sardinian leadership
(Practice Test 3) 73. In the mid 19th century, industrial growth in Western Europe was significantly stimulated by the......
D. Expansion of transportation systems
(Practice Test 3) 74. Which of the following factors most stimulated the entrance of large numbers of women into the labor force in many European countries during WWI?
E. The shortage in the labor supply
(Practice Test 3) 75. A social historian would be most likely to research which of the following topics:
A. French diplomacy, 1742-1763
B. Frederick William I and the General Directory of War, Finance and Domains.
C. The philosophical assumptions of Monte
E. Family life in a French village
(Practice Test 3) 76. In late 19th century Great Britain, women were in the majority in which of the following categories of employment:
A. Transportation
B. Mining
C. Factory work
D. Domestic service
E. Construction work
D. Domestic Service
(Practice Test 3) 77. Which scientific theory of the 19th and 20th centuries was used to support the notions of racial superiority?
C. Darwin's theory of natural selection
(Practice Test 3) 78. The painting, Musical Forms (1931) by George Braque (depicting a clarinet made of boxes), is an example of which of the following schools of painting?
C. Cubist
(Practice Test 3) 79. Albert Einstein is well known for theorizing that....
D. Mass and energy are inter-convertible
(Practice Test 3) 80. Most historians would agree with which of the following descriptions of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919?
A. A treaty that spelled out the SU's reparation obligations
B. A triumph of farsighted political and economic planning
C. A tr
E. A treaty that the defeated thought too harsh and the victors thought too lenient
(Practice Test 3) 81. The political and social values of the Vichy government in France during WWII are best described as:
A. Democratic and socialistic
B. Radically fascistic, antichurch, antielitist
C. Conservative-authoritarian, corporatist, Catholic
D
C. Conservative-authoritarian, corporatist, Catholic
(Practice Test 3) 82. The map above represents the British Empire in..... (see page 24)
C. 1919
(Practice Test 3) 83. "Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much... as he has observed... Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." Written by?
A. Francis Bacon
(Practice Test 3) 84. Which of the following European states was the last to eliminate legal discrimination against Jews?
A. Austria-Hungary
B. France
C. Great Britain
D. Italy
E. Russia
E. Russia
(Practice Test 3) 85. All of the following were among President Wilson's 14 points EXCEPT:
A. An independent Poland
B. Absolute freedom of navigation
C. The limitation of armaments
D. The autonomous development of the peoples of Austria Hungary
E. The aut
E. The autonomous development of the peoples of the Russian Empire.
(Practice Test 3) 86. The major objective of the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) was to....
A. End the use of war for solving international controversies
(Practice Test 3) 87. The illustration above from a 1940 German magazine suggests that women should....
D. Support the war effort by doing their sons' and husbands' jobs
(Practice Test 3) 88. The primary instrument of economic integration in Western Europe since WWII has been.....
B. The EEC (European Economic Community)
(Practice Test 3) 89. The most notable social effect of the 1923 inflation in Germany was....
A. the depletion of the savings and income of the middle class
(Practice Test 3) 90. All of the following are policies to which totalitarian states have traditionally adhered EXCEPT:
A. encouragement of multiparty political systems
B. promotion of social welfare measures
C. military expansion
D. economic planning
E.
A. encouragement of multiparty political systems
(Practice Test 3) 91. What was the major factor in German military victories in 1939-1940?
D. German army's effective use of armor and air power in the Blitzkrieg
(Practice Test 3) 92. Which of the following statements about 20th century existentialists like Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre is true?
A. They questioned the efficacy of reason and science in understanding the human situation
B. They counseled an inte
A. They questioned the efficacy of reason and science in understanding the human situation
(Practice Test 3) 93. In the 1960s a factor that distinguished Soviet social structure from the societies of advanced industrial nations in Western Europe was the Soviet Union's....
B. high percentage of Workers engaged in agriculture
(Practice Test 3) 94. Which of the following was the major reason for the establishment of the Dual Monarchy in 1867?
A. To satisfy the demands of the Magyars
(Practice Test 3) 95. The immediate aim of the Truman Doctrine of 1947 was to....
C. prevent the overthrow of the Greek and Turkish governments
(Practice Test 3) 96. Which of the following areas was conceded to Hitler at the Munich Conference of 1938?
E. Sudetenland
(Practice Test 3) 97. The Western Allies and the Soviet Union agreed to all of the following measures to be implemented after WWII EXCEPT:
A. the division of Berlin into 4 occupational zones
B. an international trail at Nuremberg of major Nazi leaders
C.
D. the placing of Germany under the control of the United Nations
(Practice Test 3) 98. Nikita Khruschev's program of de-Stalinization involved all of the following EXCEPT:
A. curbing the power of the political police
B. attacking Stalin's cult of personality
C. disbanding agricultural collectives
D. reestablishing the
C. disbanding agricultural collectives
(Practice Test 3) 99. Which of the following characterized Mussolini's ideal of the fascist corporate state?
I. Organization of the population into syndicates of employers, employees, and government arbitrators
II. Establishment of semi-autonomous regiona
D. I and III
(Practice Test 3) 100. Which of the following was a central part of National Socialist ideology?
A. Anticommunism
B. Conservatism
C. Protestantism
D. Utilitarianism
E. Syndicalism
A. Anticommunism