Posted: November 6th, 2015

History

History

Module 3: “The Century of European Dominance”
Module 4: “The New Thirty Years’ War”
Readings from Week 5 and Week 6 Learning Resources

Answer all twenty questions

Put an ‘X’ next to the correct answer: each correct answer is worth 1 point

Submit the completed quiz in your Assignments Folder

1. One of these is not true of the Great Depression.

_____ A) It occurred all over the world

_____ B) The Wall Street Crash made it worse

_____ C) The Soviet Union did not really experience it

_____ D) It was one cause of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler

_____ E) Agricultural commerce flourished during it

2. This Asian state was the most Western in terms of its industrialization in 1900.

_____ A) India

_____ B) China

_____ C) Korea

_____ D) Japan

_____ E) Taiwan

3. Identity nationalism comes from which of these political movements?

_____ A) Democracy

_____ B) Republicanism

_____ C) Liberalism

_____ D) Romanticism

_____ E) Socialism
4. Which one of these is not a good definition of fascism?

_____ A) A “third way” between liberalism and communism

_____ B) A totalitarian view of society

_____ C) A glorification of the use of violence to achieve political objectives

_____ D) A conceptualization of labor unions as “deviant”

_____ E) A belief in the importance of the Christian Church

5. One of these countries was created in the Paris Peace Settlement

_____ A) Romania

_____ B) Bulgaria

_____ C) U.S.S.R.

_____ D) Yugoslavia

_____ E) Switzerland

6. This empire was known as “the sick man of Europe”

_____ A) Russian

_____ B) Ottoman

_____ C) Austro-Hungarian

_____ D) German

_____ E) French

7. This leader preferred a more Western and capitalist approach to the development of China

_____ A) Chiang Kai-shek

_____ B) Mao Zedong

_____ C) Sun Yat-sen

_____ D) Zhou Enlai

_____ E) Jiang Qing

8. Which one of these is not connected to Wahhabism?

_____ A) An attack on the worship of saints

_____ B) An attack on Christianity

_____ C) A return to the pure worship of Allah

_____ D) A return to a strict and simple moral life

_____ E) An attack on the worship of images

9. All except one of these was a reason for the rapid increase in population in the eighteenth century

_____ A) Decline in the number of wars

_____ B) Decline in death rate

_____ C) Increase in the birth rate

_____ D) Decline in the incidences of the plague

_____ E) Increase in the availability of food

10. He was not a totalitarian leader

_____ A) General Hindenburg

_____ B) Joseph Stalin

_____ C) Adolf Hitler

_____ D) General Franco

_____ E) Benito Mussolini

11. All but one of these empires collapsed as a result of war and/or revolution in the early twentieth

century

_____ A) Japan

_____ B) Austria-Hungary

_____ C) Russia

_____ D) Ottoman

_____ E) China

12. One of these men was not a leader at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919

_____ A) Winston Churchill

_____ B) Woodrow Wilson

_____ C) Georges Clemenceau

_____ D) David Lloyd George

_____ E) Vittorio Orlando

13. In creating modern Turkey Ataturk did all but one of the following:

_____ A) Replaced Muslim law with the Swiss civil law

_____ B) Replaced Arabic script with the Roman alphabet

_____ C) Introduced the Western calendar

_____ D) Banned the vote for women

_____ E) Abolished the religious power of the dervishes

14. One consequence of civic nationalism.

_____ A) The destruction of national churches

_____ B) The destruction of regional languages

_____ C) The decline of the village

_____ D) The decline of the town

_____ E) The decline of political parties

15. One of these is not associated with the so-called Second Industrial Revolution

_____ A) Telephones

_____ B) Automobiles

_____ C) Electric lighting

_____ D) Steam engines

_____ E) Quinine

16. One group not persecuted by the Nazis

_____ A) Homosexuals

_____ B) Bankers

_____ C) Jews

_____ D) Jehovah’s Witnesses

_____ E) Gypsies

17. The purpose of the Factory Acts passed by industrializing countries such as Britain and Germany was to…

_____ A) Regulate the profits made by factory owners

_____ B) Regulate the punishments factory foremen could give to workers

_____ C) Regulate the number of hours worked by men, women, and children

_____ D) Regulate the size of factories

_____ E) Regulate the number of factories a person could own

18. Popular revolutions occurred in Europe in all but one of these years.

_____ A) 1789

_____ B) 1830

_____ C) 1848

_____ D) 1863

_____ E) 1871

19. This was not a socialist organization.

_____ A) International Working men’s Association

_____ B) International Friendly Society

_____ C) The Second International

_____ D) The Communist International

_____ E) The Third International

20. One of these was not a fundamental change caused by the Industrial Revolution

_____ A) Changes in agriculture

_____ B) Changes in economic policies

_____ C) Changes in transportation

_____ D) Changes in social structure

_____ E) Changes in national borders

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