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CHAPTER 23 AND REVIEW EXAM
*1) Which of the following was true of contraception in nineteenth-century Europe?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Pragmatism
impressionism
Romanticism
Deism
Realism
*4) Which of the following would Herbert Spencer and Von Haeckel agree on?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
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removed the yoke which had oppressed Protestants for centuries. Tolerance is a
convincing proof of the improvement of the human mind.
The author of the quotation above was most likely a
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
6) Urban life in the major European cities during the Industrial Revolution was
characterized by
a) Rapid social mobility among recent migrants from the countryside
b) Overcrowded living conditions and unsafe working conditions for the
working poor
c) The adoption of laissez-faire attitudes by industrial workers
d) Government control of major industrial companies
e) An increase in the nobilitys power over the urban population
7) European liberals in the first half of the nineteenth century typically supported
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Womens suffrage
Accident and unemployment insurance
The right of workers to unionize and strike
A written constitution and wider suffrage
The establishment of overseas colonies to improve conditions at home
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e) Jonas Salk and Francis Crick
10) The myriad diseases that affected Europe in the nineteenth-century included
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
11) Urban growth across Europe in the nineteenth-century most accurately followed
which pattern below?
a) Cities grew up around rivers only and were thus dependent upon
hydroelectric power
b) Rural areas saw an increase in population that was exponential to the growth
of urban areas
c) The population of European cities continued to grow as the century
progressed
d) The population of cities on continental Europe was surpassed tenfold by
English growth
e) Cities were growing at higher rates than rural areas thanks to improved parks
and education
12) As the nineteenth-century progressed; former centers of population in the
eighteenth-century
a) lost population to burgeoning urban areas across Europe
b) continued to grow thanks to the advances of the Second Industrial
Revolution
c) lost their crucial role as harbingers of trade and mercantile pursuits
d) maintained their economic prominence, but lost their political legitimacy
e) lost population due to the spreading of disease
13) If utilitarianism could be differentiated from liberalism of the 1840s, it would
most likely be
a) The desire to radically redraw the map of Europe.
b) The need for emotion as fuel for the movement.
c) The overarching desire of all utilitarians to find a sensible approach to all
citizens problems.
d) The need to solve societys problems for the benefit of the majority
of the population.
e) The interconnection of the belief with that of conservatism.
14) Utilitarians could also be described as
a) Consensus seekers
b) Conservative bureaucrats
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c) Philosophical utopians
d) Centralized pragmatists
e) Socialist liberals
15) If the goal of utilitarianism was to do the greatest good for the greatest
number, what result below would they agree with?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
16) Which statement below can accurately be attributed to John Stuart Mill (18061873)?
a) States have every justification to act on behalf of the people if they feel it will
advance the goals of the state
b) The only power a state can have over an individual is the ability to
prevent a citizen from doing harm to others.
c) States are setup on the basis of a shared responsibility and sacrifice that can
only be preserved when people surrender their natural rights
d) Individuals grant the state the right to rescind their sovereign rights in times
of great national distress.
e) States are the primary sources of power within society and their laws are
unalterable, no matter what the law may be.
*17) Much like socialist thinkers before him, Mill believed
a) The individual was in control of their every action on a day-to-day basis.
b) The individual was in danger of repression by the powers in society
and government.
c) The individual faced an economic oppression, but were politically
equal to all.
d) The individual was sovereign in their political decisions, but economically
corrupt.
e) The individual was in a constant struggle against inherent weakness within
man.
18) The ideas of nineteenth-century European feminists varied, but almost
universally centered around..
a) Ending female suffrage.
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b)
c)
d)
e)
19) Of the options below, which was not a liberty put forth by John Stuart Mill?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
20) One of the most obvious differences between realistic and romantic writers was
the fact that?
a) Realists glorified common people and actions by making them seem
extraordinary.
b) Romantics were uninterested in nature because it was an obvious part of
reality.
c) Realists rejected poetry as a proper way of expressing the real world
and preferred the novel instead.
d) Romantics were interested in the inner mind, whereas realists rejected
psychological themes.
e) Romantics were less interested in emotions and Realists concentrated on
them solely
21) The New Science of the mid-1800s was followed by which of the isms below?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Nationalism
Liberalism
Socialism
Imperialism
Communism
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Aristocrac
y
Bourgeoisie
White Collar
Middle Class
Labor Aristocracy
Semi-skilled
Unskilled
The Social Pyramid above most closely represents which nation of the mid 1800s?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
France
Russia
Prussia
England
Spain
23) Which of the following was the greatest single contribution to medicine in
Europe up to the 1870s?
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Anarchist
Libertarian
Conservative
Radical
Liberal
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27) Which of the following is a basic difference between the First and Second
Industrial Revolutions?
a) The effects and scale of the second phase of industrialization were
larger.
b) A deep depression ended the First Industrial Revolution.
c) The working classes did not benefit from the Second Industrial Revolution.
d) The first phase of industrialization was shorter.
e) The Second Industrial Revolution affected central Europe more.
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Charles Darwin
Auguste Comte
Charles Lyell
Herbert Spencer
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
*32) Which of the following is the most accurate characterization of the relationship
between religion and science in the seventeenth century?
a) Spinozas monism created a widely accepted synthesis of the two.
b) Most scientists expressed skepticism and hoped to reduce religions
influence.
c) The Catholic Church effectively silenced unorthodox scientific ideas.
d) Though secularism grew, many thinkers attempted to reconcile the
two.
e) Religion and science inhabited
33) Men being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of
this estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own
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consent, which is done by agreeing with other men, to join and unite into a
community for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living in a secure
enjoyment of their properties.
The quotation above is from a work by
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
John Locke
Francis Bacon
Edmund Burke
Voltaire
Adam Smith
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a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
Napoleon I
Alexander I
Leopold II
Metternich
Pitt
39) Napoleon helped make the French Revolution an international movement in the
areas he conquered
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
*40) The Public Health Act of 1891 allowed English authorities the power to
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
II. FRQ Describe how the new urban life, present in England and Prussia especially,
influenced the new science of the time. Be specific about the effects and the
science/scientists/philosophers. (20 points)