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