Question 1

How would you explain Britain's relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?

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Question 2

Compare and contrast the roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi in the unification of Italy. Whose role was most important and why?

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The roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Gariba...

Question 3

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

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Gustave Courbet's "The Stonebreakers" wa...

Question 4

Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus's theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be a struggle for existence.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian War?

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Question 6

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Ottoman Empire

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The Ottoman Empire was a state that cont...

Question 7

The Danish War was fought over

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A)  control of the Baltic Sea.
B)  Alsace-Lorraine.
C)  the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
D)  Saxony and Mecklenburg.
E)  Bavaria.

Question 8

Otto von Bismarck belonged to which class?

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A)  the working class
B)  the industrial middle class
C)  the Junker class
D)  the gentry
E)  the lower middle class

Question 9

In which city was William I proclaimed Kaiser, or emperor, of the Second Reich in 1871?

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A)  Berlin
B)  Frankfort
C)  Paris
D)  Versailles
E)  Rome

Question 10

According to Darwin, all organisms

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A)  are descended from three distinct foundation organisms.
B)  evolve from complexity toward simplicity.
C)  evolved over a long period of time from earlier and simpler forms of life.
D)  existed shortly after the earth came into existence.
E)  except human beings follow general rules of biological development.

Question 11

The American Civil War (1861-1865)

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A)  was ended by the Missouri Compromise.
B)  was highly destructive due to the equal balance of forces between North and South.
C)  was a clear precursor of "total war" in the twentieth century.
D)  did not completely eradicate slavery in all of the states due to local referendums on the question.
E)  led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights.

Question 12

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Realpolitik

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Realpolitik is a political approach that...

Question 13

In your opinion, what force or forces played the most important role in reviving the progress of European social and political reform in the later nineteenth century?

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In my opinion, the most important force ...

Question 14

Who was the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century?

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A)  Rudyard Kipling
B)  Gustave Flaubert
C)  Thomas Gainsborough
D)  Gustave Courbet
E)  Anthony Powell

Question 15

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
"First International"

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The "First International," formally know...

Question 16

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Count Camillo di Cavour

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Count Camillo di Cavour was a leading fi...

Question 17

The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when

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A)  Garibaldi's Red Shirts defeated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
B)  Savoy was defeated with the aid of Prussian troops.
C)  Rome became the capital city following the withdrawal of French troops.
D)  Piedmont took control of Lombardy as a result of French abandonment of Venice.
E)  the pope renounced any territorial claims in all of Italy.

Question 18

For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. 
Count Otto von Bismarck

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Count Otto von Bismarck, also known as O...

Question 19

Which statement best describes the First International?

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A)  It failed due to Marx's preoccupation with Das Kapital .
B)  It became the largest working-class trade union in Europe in the nineteenth century.
C)  It was rejected by Marxism as a "bourgeois-dominated institution."
D)  It served as a type of umbrella organization for all European labor interests.
E)  It led the various revolutionary movements in the uprisings of 1848.

Question 20

Vera Zasulich's successful use of violence against the tsarist regime in Russia led

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A)  Karl Marx to write positively about the role of women in revolution.
B)  to her public denunciation by the reform group Land and Freedom.
C)  to her execution as a traitor.
D)  to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by radicals known as the People's Will.
E)  to her exile to Great Britain.

Exam 22: An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

Compare and contrast the roles of Cavour, Mazzini, and Garibaldi in the unification of Italy. Whose role was most important and why?

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How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian War?

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Charles Darwin was influenced by Thomas Malthus's theory of population that claimed that more individuals are born than can possibly survive and that thus there must be a struggle for existence.

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Realpolitik

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Count Camillo di Cavour

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Count Otto von Bismarck

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Ottoman Empire

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Gustave Courbet's The Stonebreakers

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How would you explain Britain's relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. "First International"

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Otto von Bismarck belonged to which class?

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In which city was William I proclaimed Kaiser, or emperor, of the Second Reich in 1871?

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The final act of Italian unification occurred in 1870 when

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In your opinion, what force or forces played the most important role in reviving the progress of European social and political reform in the later nineteenth century?

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Who was the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century?

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The American Civil War (1861-1865)

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