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Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 9th Edition Spielvogel Test Bank
Western Civilization Volume II Since 1500 9th Edition Spielvogel Test Bank
3. Compare and contrast Cavour and Garibaldi's vision of a united Italy, as well as Bismarck’s goal of a unified Germany.
What steps did Cavour, Garibaldi, and Bismarck take to bring about unification in Italy and Germany?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: National Unification: Italy and Germany
The Unification of Italy
The Leadership of Cavour
The Efforts of Garibaldi
The Unification of Germany
Bismarck
The Danish War (1864)
The Austro-Prussian War (1866)
The Franco-Prussian War (1870 – 1871)
4. Discuss the reform efforts in Great Britain, Russia and the Austrian Empire from 1850 to 1870. How successful were
they?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Nation Building and Reform: The National State in Midcentury
The Austrian Empire: Toward a Dual Monarchy
Imperial Russia
Great Britain: The Victorian Age
5. How did the Austrians deal with the problem of Hungarian nationalism in the aftermath of defeat in the Austro-Prussian
War?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Austrian Empire: Toward a Dual Monarchy
6. What were the consequences of the emancipation of Russia’s serfs in 1861? What were the limits of their newly
acquired freedom?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
7. How would you explain Britain’s relative political stability in the second half of the nineteenth century?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Great Britain: The Victorian Age
9. How did Realism differ from Romanticism? How was Realism a reflection of the economic and social realities of
Europe during the middle decades of the nineteenth century?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Literature
Realism in Art
10. How did Marx explain historical change? How did he apply his theory of historical change to the times in which he
lived?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
11. How did the role of science in society change over the course of the nineteenth century?
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: A New Age of Science
13. Realpolitik
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Chapter Introduction
17. Sevastopol
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: War in the Crimea
32. Ausgleich
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Austrian Empire: Toward a Dual Monarchy
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34. zemstvos
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Imperial Russia
35. mir
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Imperial Russia
43. materialism
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: A New Age of Science
44. proletariat
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
45. Marxism
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
56. Realism
ANSWER: Answers will vary.
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Literature
62. What event precipitated the end of the Second French Republic in 1851?
a. Prussia invaded and occupied France.
b. The army overthrew the Republic in a coup.
c. The legislature voluntarily disbanded.
d. A tornado tore about the government buildings.
e. The voters abolished it in a vote.
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Louis Napoleon: Toward the Second Empire
64. What was Napoleon III most interested in during the Second Empire?
a. Fostering the industrial development of France
b. Avoiding wars and foreign adventures
c. Enhancing civil liberties like free speech
d. Encouraging people to get involved in politics
e. Enhancing the position of the Catholic Church in French culture
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Second Napoleonic Empire
65. In which area did Napoleon's most disastrous foreign policy adventure occur?
a. The Crimea
b. Italy
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66. In 1699, the Ottoman Empire lost Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slovenia to
a. Egypt.
b. Russia.
c. Greece.
d. Austria.
e. Prussia.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Ottoman Empire
67. Which country's incursions into the Black Sea prompted England and France to enter the Crimean War in 1854?
a. Russia
b. Turkey
c. Germany
d. Austria
e. The United States
ANSWER: a
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: War in the Crimea
69. After the disappointments of 1848-1849, many Italian nationalists turned to ____ for leadership in the unification of
northern Italy.
a. Florence
b. Piedmont
c. Austria
70. Who was the prime minister of Piedmont who organized the Italian unification movement?
a. Giuseppe Mazzini
b. Giuseppe Garibaldi
c. Camillo di Cavour
d. Victor Emmanuel
e. the Duke of Alba
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Leadership of Cavour
71. Who was the dominant foreign power in Italy prior to unification?
a. France
b. Spain
c. Papal States
d. Savoy
e. Austria
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Unification of Italy
72. Which country did Piedmont align with during the Italian War of 1859?
a. Russia
b. England
c. Austria
d. Prussia
e. France
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Leadership of Cavour
73. Who was the romantic nationalist who challenged Cavour for control of southern Italy?
a. Matteotti
b. Mazzini
c. Garibaldi
d. Sforza
e. Cavour
ANSWER: c
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74. Why was Prussia more likely than Austria to provide leadership in the cause of German unification?
a. Prussia lacked a strong military.
b. Austria had few ethnic Germans living within its borders.
c. Austria feared the creation of a strong German state in central Europe.
d. Prussia was a large multinational empire.
e. Prussia had lagged behind the rest of Europe in industrialization.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Unification of Germany
77. Which two states did German nationalists believe were powerful enough to achieve the unification of Germany?
a. Austria and Prussia
b. Austria and Poland
c. Austria and France
d. Prussia and Italy
e. Italy and France
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Unification of Germany
85. What was the historical significance of Prussian leadership during German unification?
a. It marked a new era of peaceful European interstate relations.
b. It marked the triumph of authoritarian and militaristic values over liberal and constitutional values in the new
German state.
c. Austrian bureaucrats would have new opportunities to shape the political culture of the new German Empire.
d. True parliamentary democracy would triumph in the new German state.
e. It marked a new era of peace in Europe.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
86. In which city was William I proclaimed Kaiser, or emperor, of the Second Reich in 1871?
a. Berlin
b. Frankfort
c. Paris
d. Versailles
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88. What did German-speaking Austrians and Hungarian Magyars do under the Dual Monarchy of Austria and Hungary?
a. They destroyed national minorities through genocide.
b. They dominated national minorities within their boundaries.
c. They cooperated in freeing other national minorities.
d. They forced national minorities to emigrate or assimilate.
e. They treated ethnic minorities as they treated each other.
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Austrian Empire: Toward a Dual Monarchy
89. Around what issue did the reforms of Tsar Alexander II center?
a. Government sponsorship of popular societies like the Bolsheviks
b. Improvements in the military
c. The abolition of serfdom
d. The formation of local, self-governing assemblies called "dumas"
e. Nationalizing all the lands of Russia, putting them under state control
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Imperial Russia
92. After emancipation, who was responsible for paying for the land given to freed serfs?
a. The tsar’s government
b. The Russian people as a whole
c. The former landowner
d. The village commune
e. Individual landowners
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Imperial Russia
93. What was one of the key political consequences of Disraeli's Reform Act of 1867?
a. The outbreak of mass strikes by industrial workers in Britain
b. A large increase in the number of voters
c. The emergence of female suffrage movements in other European countries
d. The freeing of the last British serfs on northern landed estates
e. The incorporation of India into the British Empire
ANSWER: b
RATIONALE: Great Britain: The Victorian Age
POINTS: 1
95. What was the original reason that the North fought the Civil War?
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96. What proved a turning point in the drive towards Canadian independence?
a. The Napoleonic Wars
b. The War of 1812
c. The revolutions of 1848
d. The American Civil War
e. The Crimean War
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Emergence of a Canadian Nation
97. Marx saw his own times as a period in which the bourgeoisie faced off against the
a. church.
b. monarchists.
c. trade unionists.
d. proletariat.
e. nobility.
ANSWER: d
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
99. The German physician Robert Koch is best known for his contributions to
a. evolutionary biology.
b. organic chemistry.
c. bacteriology.
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100. According to Marx, the history of all previous societies is the history of
a. slow decline.
b. blood and iron.
c. enlightenment.
d. progress.
e. class struggle.
ANSWER: e
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
103. Which statement best applies to Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory?
a. His ideas were readily accepted by religious fundamentalists and cultural conservatives.
b. His works were truly revolutionary in that they were the first to propose a theory of evolution.
c. His theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and
environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival.
d. His On the Origin of Species described man's evolution from animal origins through natural selection.
e. He envisioned utopian evolution, unlike Marx who predicted materialistic revolution.
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104. What was the subject of Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man?
a. It questioned the new evolutionary theories.
b. It proposed the first theory of genetic mutations.
c. It argued for the animal origins of human beings, who had evolved by adapting to their environment over time.
d. It placed humans in the center of a rational universe.
e. It predicted the extinction of man and the rise of a new creation that would dominate nature.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
105. Who was primarily responsible for the germ theory of disease?
a. Charles Darwin
b. Joseph Lister
c. Louis Pasteur
d. Friedrich Engels
e. Samuel Gross
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: A New Age of Science
106. Which scientist provided a working foundation for the use of electricity?
a. Friedrich Engels
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Michael Faraday
d. Charles Darwin
e. Charles Dickens
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: A New Age of Science
109. Who was the leading realist novelist of the nineteenth century?
a. Rudyard Kipling
b. Gustave Flaubert
c. Thomas Gainsborough
d. Gustave Courbet
e. Anthony Powell
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Literature
110. In Madame Bovary, ____ told the story of a woman trapped in loveless marriage.
a. Jean-Francois Millet
b. Gustave Courbet
c. Gustave Flaubert
d. Charles Dickens
e. William Thackeray
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Literature
111. In The Stonebreakers, ____ shocked viewers with its depiction of human misery.
a. Jean-Francois Millet
b. Gustave Courbet
c. Gustave Flaubert
d. Charles Dickens
e. William Thackeray
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Art
113. France and Russia faced off against Britain and the Ottomans in the Crimean War.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: War in the Crimea
114. Count Camillo di Cavour led the unification movement in southern Italy.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Leadership of Cavour
115. The Prussians enjoyed significant technological advantages over the Austrians in the Austro-Prussian War.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: The Austro-Prussian War (1866)
117. The zemstvos system was designed to enhance the power of the Russian central government.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Imperial Russia
118. Real wages for British laborers increased more than 25 percent between 1850 and 1870.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
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119. Marx believed that organic evolution was the driving force behind historical change.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Marx and Marxism
120. Michael Faraday worked out the theoretical foundations of the steam engine.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: False
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: A New Age of Science
121. Literary Realists often explored the social issues of their day through their novels and stories.
a. True
b. False
ANSWER: True
POINTS: 1
REFERENCES: Realism in Literature