AP Euro Practice Exam
Xavier's views in the second paragraph support which of the following conclusions about the period 1450-1648?
Christianization both depended on and legitimized European colonial expansion
Cook's voyages were primarily a result of which of the following eighteenth-century developments?
Competition among European powers to create commercial empires
Which of the following would most contradict Weber's thesis concerning the fundamental character of Fascism?
Franco's support for traditional Catholic values in his Spanish Fascist movement
Which of the following conclusions is best supported by the cartoon?
German liberals regarded the status quo in the German states as an obstacle to progress
In the interwar period, educators in which of the following countries would most likely have had a view of geography education similar to that expressed in the passage?
Germany
Based on the information in the graph, which of the following regions was most likely to avoid the Malthusian trap concerning food supply and population?
Great Britain and the Low Countries
Based on the passage, which of the following can be safely inferred about Herberle's religious affiliation?
He was not Roman Catholic.
The report best reflects which of the following goals of public education systems in the period before the First World War?
Instilling feelings of nationalism
Celtis' discussion of Italian influence in the German lands is most similar to which of the following?
Martin Luther's criticisms of the Catholic Church in his Ninety-five Theses
The petition best supports which of the following conclusions?
Peasant notions of social status and social hierarchy were at odds with Bolshevik notions of class formation and class consciousness.
Which of the following would best explain the appeal of Fascism in France alluded to in the passage?
Political instability in France after the First World War
Based on the poem, it can be inferred that Sâdullah Pasha was most influenced by which of the following?
Positivism
The situation of war veterans such as those depicted in the image was most effectively used to sway public opinion during the interwar period by which of the following groups in Germany?
Right-wing nationalists critical of government ineffectiveness
Which of the following groups in the nineteenth century would most likely have agreed with the sentiments in the passage?
Romantic nationalists
Which of the following was most directly a cause of the inequalities in land ownership among the Russian peasantry referred to by the petitioners?
The abolition of serfdom
Valdés' argument reflects which of the following developments of this period?
The affirmation by the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy of women's subordination in matters of religion
The creators of the poster also likely opposed which of the following?
The continued French government of Algeria
The attitude exemplified by the poster was likely LEAST influenced by which of the following?
The creation of the United Nations
Which of the following developments in nineteenth-century German history was most directly a response to the concerns expressed in the cartoon?
The creation of the Zollverein, a customs union under Prussian leadership, which facilitated trade and hastened industrialization
Apart from the changes in seed yield shown on the graph above, which of the following most directly affected Europe's ability to feed itself in the period 1600-1800?
The cultivation of New World crops in Europe
The patterns shown on the graph most directly contributed to which of the following?
The early industrialization of Britain and the Low Countries
A historian could best use Herberle's discussion of the comet as evidence for which of the following features of early modern intellectual life?
The persistence of a traditional view of the world as governed by supernatural forces
The Bolshevik policies decried by the petitioners in the passage would be carried to their logical conclusion in which later Soviet policy?
The policy of liquidating the kulaks as a class and the formation of collective farms
The passage above most clearly shows the influence of which of the following trends in fifteenth-century Europe?
The revival of classical learning and the development of Northern humanism
Lanier's publication of an argument for increased respect for women was made possible by which of the following?
The spread of literacy and personal engagement with religious texts
The conflict that Herberle describes in his chronicle resulted in which of the following?
The weakening of the Holy Roman Empire and the strengthening of smaller sovereign states within its boundaries
At the time of the cartoon's publication, the political conditions referred to had been most recently reaffirmed by
the settlement at the Congress of Vienna
Sentiments similar to those expressed in the report most directly contributed to which of the following developments in the late twentieth century?
) Ethnic conflict after the collapse of communism
The political condition of Germany described in the passage did not change until
1871
The last three lines of the poem best illustrate which of the following aspects of Europe's relationship with the rest of the world in the late nineteenth century?
Adoption of Western ideas caused many non-Western peoples to call for the modernization of their own societies and states.
The poissardes and other participants in the events described in the song were motivated most strongly by which of the following?
An economic crisis brought about by food shortages
The painting is an example of which of the following developments in modernist European art?
Artists' abandonment of realistic representation in order to convey internal emotional states
Xavier's views of indigenous populations as expressed in the passage were most similar to views commonly held by late-nineteenth-century Europeans in which of the following ways?
Both views reflected a sense of cultural superiority.
Compared to Cook's portrayal of the inhabitants of Australia in the late eighteenth century, the predominant European view of non-European peoples in the late nineteenth century had changed in which of the following ways?
Europeans in the late nineteenth century tended to view lack of technological development as evidence of cultural inferiority
The interrogator's reference to "imperialist states" is best understood in the context of which of the following?
Ideological conflicts associated with the Cold War
Weber's argument linking Fascism and Jacobinism implies that he was influenced by which of the following?
Marxist materialist analysis of social change and historical development
Accounts of non-European peoples similar to Cook's portrayal of the inhabitants of Australia contributed most directly to the development of which of the following?
Romanticism
By the mid-eighteenth century, developments in agriculture similar to the ones reflected in the map led to which of the following in some parts of western Europe?
Rural overpopulation and migration to the cities
The interrogation recorded in the passage best demonstrates continuity with which of the following?
Stalin's policies toward political opponents
The participation of women such as the poissardes led to which of the following during the early phases of the French Revolution?
Temporary improvements in women's legal status
The ability of someone of Herberle's social status in seventeenth-century Germany to read and write was most likely the result of which of the following?
The Protestant Reformation's emphasis on individual study of the Bible
The passages are best understood in the context of which of the following?
The debate over the role of women in society prompted by the Reformation
The Portuguese presence in India most directly resulted from which of the following?
The desire to obtain greater access to precious metals and luxury goods
Which of the following features of the French Revolution would best support Weber's argument comparing Fascism to Jacobinism?
The economic price and wage controls imposed during the Reign of Terror
The conditions referred to in the report were most directly a result of which of the following developments?
The emergence of new Balkan states as the Ottoman Empire declined
Cook's observations concerning the material culture of the inhabitants of Australia most clearly reflect the influence of which of the following developments in Europe?
The expanded availability and use of consumer goods
The events referred to in the song led most directly to which of the following?
The formalization of a constitutional monarchy in France
By the 1920s and 1930s, the ideas concerning science and progress reflected in the poem underwent which of the following transformations?
The ideas came to be regarded with suspicion by many European intellectuals in the light of subsequent scientific discoveries and political events.
The Soviet regime's approach to dissent as exemplified in the passage would be most significantly changed as a result of which of the following?
The implementation of Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost
In addition to new patterns of landownership and land use, which of the following factors had the greatest impact on western European agriculture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
The increasing cultivation of new crops brought from the Americas
Infrastructure projects such as the one depicted on the map are best understood in the context of which of the following?
The intensification of agricultural production in response to the development of a market economy
The political sentiment expressed in the poster would have the greatest influence on which of the following?
The student rebellions of 1968
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, liberal political economists in western Europe used information similar to the data shown in the graph to argue that
abolition of common agricultural land holdings would result in greater agricultural productivity
The religious order of which Xavier was a member was important in the history of sixteenth-century Europe primarily because it
challenged Protestant teachings and helped revive the Church during the Catholic Reformation
Otto Dix's painting is part of the cultural context of
the dislocation and pessimism of the "lost generation"