AP Euro Multiple Choice

1. The patterns shown on the graph above contributed most directly to which of the following? a. The increasing number of Europeans emigrating to the Americas b. The early industrializtion of britain and the low countries c. The large size of france's population d. The increasing importance of eastern european as a grain exporter (Graph of Seed Yields)

b

3. Apart from the changes in see yield shown on the graph above, which of the following most affected Europe;s ability to feed itself in the period 1600-1800? a. the creation of large cash-crop plantations in the Americas b. the cultivation of new world crops in europe c. the widespread mechanization of agriculture d. the decreasing tendency of armies to target civilian populations during wartime (Graph of Seed Yields)

b

8. Based on the poem, it can be inferred that Sadullah Pasha was most influenced by which of the following? a. Social darwinism b. positivism c. romantic nationalism d. abolitionism (Pasha Poem

b

10. By the 1920s and 1930s the ideas concerning science and progress reflected in the poem underwent which of the following transformations? a. the ideas were largely rejected by non-western leaders as incompatible with indigenous norms and cultures b. the ideas were largely supplanted by a revival of religious sentiments in the wake of the First World War c. the ideas came to be regarded with suspicion by many European intellectuals in the light of subsequent scientific discoveries and political events d. the ideas were regarded with increasing hostility by European intellectuals in the wake of growing anti-colonial movements in Asia and Africa

c

5. In the Passage, Lynn Hunt outlines the Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution. What evidence would support the argument that the Revolution was fundamentally bourgeois? a. the wave of spontaneous peasant attacks on the ability in 1789 b. the abolition of hereditary privileges by the national assembly during the first phase of the revolution c. the price controls on basic foodstuffs instituted by the revolutionary government d. the leading role in the revolution of members of the nobility, such as the e. marquis de lafayette (Marxist Passage)

c

2. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, liberal political economists in western Europe and infromation similar to the data shown in the graph argue that a. Governments should require landholders to make agricultural improvements b. The exports of food crops and other agricultural products should be restricted c. Agricultural work had moral and physical benefits that were superior to those of industrial labor d. Abolition of common agricultural land holdings would result in greater agricultural productivity (Graph of Seed Yields)

d

6. A Marxist historian would be least likely to identify which of the following as a fundamental cause of the French Revolution a. patterns of land ownership b. fluctuations in grain prices c. internal trade patterns d. enlightenment ideas (Marx Passage)

d

9. 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 19th century? a. European imperial encroachments provoked a cultural backlash and a rejection of western values in many areas of Africa and Asia b. colonial subjects began organizing politically to overthrow European rule c. many countries were made dependent on Europe economically and politically through treaties and trade agreements d. adoption of western ideas caused many non-Western peoples to call for the modernization of their own societies and states (Pasha Poem)

d

In making an argument concerning the fundamental nature of the French Revolution, a Marxist historian would most likely emphasize which of the following? a. the storming of the bastille by a Parisian mob b. the requirement that members of the clergy take an oath of loyalty to the new government c. the persecution of political opponents of the regime during the reign of terror d. the legal protection of property rights in the Declaration of the rights of man and citizen (Marx Passage)

d

4. 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? a. Great Britain and the Low Countries b. France, Spain and italy c. Central Europe and Scandinavia d. Eastern Europe (Graph of Seed Yields)

a