CH.24 Practice Quiz
Among the notable achievements of the British Liberals under Lloyd George was
Passage of the National Insurance Act of 1911 providing sickness and unemployment benefits to workers
Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes for her achievements in
Physics and chemistry
The Symbolists were primarily associated with which of the following types of writing?
Poetry
British rule brought all of the following to India in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT
Political democracy
In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the process that drives unwanted thoughts into the unconscious is known as
Repression
In general, by the late nineteenth century, the worst treatment of the Jews occurred in
Russia
The Meiji Restoration in Japan
Sent many Japanese abroad to be educated in the ways of the west and adopted many western reforms in political and military organization
The primary antagonists in the Balkans region were
Serbs and Austrians
Maria Montessori exemplifies the "new woman" of modern times in that
She obtained a professional degree and applied her expertise to new fields of inquiry like early childhood development
The Boer War was fought by the British in
South Africa
The quantum theory of energy developed by Max Planck raised fundamental questions about the
Subatomic realm of the atom and the basic building blocks of the material world
Which revolutionary leader helped overthrow the Manchu dynasty of China in 1912?
Sun Yat-sen
Which of the following art movements was NOT prominent in the three decades prior to World War I?
Surrealism
The first professional occupation to be opened up to women was
Teaching
By the late nineteenth century, which of the following groups had emerged as labor's dominant voice in the United States?
The American Federation of Labor
Germany entered the ranks of the imperialist powers by establishing African colonies including
The Cameroons
Social Darwinism was
The application of the principal of organic evolution to the social order
Modernism in music included all of the following elements EXCEPT
The exclusive use of extremely regular rhythms
The basis of the Bismarckian System was
The isolation of France though a series of military alliances
Growing tensions in modern German society were exemplified by
The proliferation of ultra-nationalist right-wing political groups with anti-Semitic, racist, and imperialist beliefs.
Which of the following was NOT an argument to justify imperialism at the turn of the century?
To lessen the burden of excess European population, especially criminals and other "undesirables"
To advance the cause of women's suffrage, the Women's Social and Political Union founded by Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters
Took a radical, public, and we'll publicized approach to the movement, employing different media and provocative public actions, like pelting male politicians with eggs.
By the early twentieth century, British liberalism had abandoned " laissez-faire" in favor of governmental activism and social reform
True
Clara Barton embodied the concept of the "new woman," having attended medical school and pioneered a new form of childhood education.
True
Post-Impressionist painters such as Cezanne and van Gogh differed from the Impressionists in shifting from an objective reality to a subjective reality, thus abandoning the artist's traditional task of portraying the external world
True
During the nineteenth century, Jews
We're emancipated in most countries, but still faced restrictions
The October Manifesto of Nicholas II
led to the creation of a legislative assembly known as the Duma
Theodor Herzl, the leader of the Zionist movement
Advocated the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine
The pioneer in nursing who founded the Female Association of the Care of the Poor and Stick was
Amalie Sieveking
The Pan-German League advocated
Anti-liberal policies including the development of a global German colonial empire to unite all classes of citizens at home
The artist whose work garnered the highest price at the first Impressionist auction was
Berthe Morisot
At its premier, Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, now considered as a classic example of modernism in music and ballet,
Caused a riot by the audience because of its sharp dissonance and blatant sensuality
The "open door" policy was to allow more freedom of trade in so-called spheres of influence in
China
The Bismarckian System had the ultimate result of
Dividing Europe into two opposing groups of nations, making war more likely
The event which exemplified renewed anti-Semitism in France in the nineteenth century was the
Dreyfus affair
In Freud's theory of psychoanalysis, the seat of reason is the
Ego
In 1905, who published "The Electro-Dynamics of Moving Bodies"?
Einstein
Pope Leo XIII responded to modern ideas in all of the following ways EXCEPT
Embracing Marxist socialism
The best example of Naturalism in literature can be found in the novels of
Emile Zola
Because of the lasting influence of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, there was little evidence of anti-Semitism in France at the end of the nineteenth century
False
By the end of the nineteenth century, the United States had become the world's third richest nation and greatest industrial power, behind Great Britain and Imperial Germany
False
Cecil Rhodes was the great champion of British imperialism in Asia
False
Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that democracy and Chriatianity together could triumph where great men and science had failed
False
Herbert Spencer was the chief propagandist for German volkish thought at the turn of the twentieth century
False
Marie and Pierre Curie formulated the relativity theory
False
The Boxers in China were successful in limiting the influence of the European nations and Japan.
False
The Congress of Berlin granted home rule to Ireland
False
Britain's Fabian Socialists
Favored evolution toward a socialist state by democratic means
The author whose work emphasizes suffering and faith as the means for the human soul to be purified was
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Triple Alliance before 1914 included which of the following countries?
Germany, Austria, Italy
Which of the following Progressive-era laws went into effect during Woodrow Wilson's tenure as president in the United States?
Graduated federal income tax
The Triple Entente before 1914 included which of the following countries?
Great Britain, France, Russia
In order to implement the Liberal Party's social reform program, David Lloyd George radically curtailed the power of the
House of Lords
Using Darwin's terminology, Herbert Spencer argued that
Human societies were organisms evolving through time by struggling with their environments.
Camille Pissarro was one of the founders of
Impressionism
The greatest difference between Naturalism and Realism in literature was
In general, naturalism was more pessimistic than realism
Friedrich Nietzsche glorified
Irrationality
In Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899), Houston Stewart Chamberlain predicted that Germany was destined to
Lead the Aryan race to the conquest of Europe
Inquiry into the disintegrative processes within atoms became a central theme in the new physics in part due to the experimental work of
Marie and Pierre Curie on radium and radiation
According to relativity theory
Neither time nor space is absolute but relative to the observer