Question 1

What was a new development in the age of mass leisure?

Accepted Answer

A) the newspaper and novel 
B) the excessive consumption of alcohol 
C) the theater 
D) carnival 
E) professional sports 
A) the newspaper and novel 
B) the excessive consumption of alcohol 
C) the theater 
D) carnival 
E) professional sports

Question 2

What was true of daughters in European working-class families?

Accepted Answer

A) They were expected to work until marriage. 
B) By long custom, they were kept at home until of age to marry. 
C) They were barred from working by state law in many countries. 
D) They had traditionally never shown an interest in working either before or after marriage. 
E) They enrolled in vocational schools until marriage and then entered the work-place. 
A) They were expected to work until marriage. 
B) By long custom, they were kept at home until of age to marry. 
C) They were barred from working by state law in many countries. 
D) They had traditionally never shown an interest in working either before or after marriage. 
E) They enrolled in vocational schools until marriage and then entered the work-place.

Question 3

What did Eduard Bernstein claim in his book Evolutionary Socialism?

Accepted Answer

A) The only hope for the workers was a violent revolution. 
B) Socialism could best be achieved through the democratic process. 
C) Unions should bargain with employers and avoid politics. 
D) The poor were too ignorant to be allowed to vote. 
E) True communism would take hundreds of years to evolve. 
A) The only hope for the workers was a violent revolution. 
B) Socialism could best be achieved through the democratic process. 
C) Unions should bargain with employers and avoid politics. 
D) The poor were too ignorant to be allowed to vote. 
E) True communism would take hundreds of years to evolve.

Question 4

Living conditions in cities improved due to all of these reforms EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A) the development of pure water and sewerage systems. 
B) model homes built for the poor by wealthy philanthropists. 
C) the demolition of old, unneeded urban defensive walls, replaced by wide avenues. 
D) a successful effort to clean up all polluted rivers and lakes. 
E) some increases in governmental regulations. 
A) the development of pure water and sewerage systems. 
B) model homes built for the poor by wealthy philanthropists. 
C) the demolition of old, unneeded urban defensive walls, replaced by wide avenues. 
D) a successful effort to clean up all polluted rivers and lakes. 
E) some increases in governmental regulations.

Question 5

What was the chief cause of rising European populations between 1850 and 1880?

Accepted Answer

A) An increasing rising birthrate 
B) A declining mortality rate 
C) Better childhood immunization programs 
D) Better human diet in a consumer economy 
E) Dramatic improvements in urban sanitation 
A) An increasing rising birthrate 
B) A declining mortality rate 
C) Better childhood immunization programs 
D) Better human diet in a consumer economy 
E) Dramatic improvements in urban sanitation

Question 6

What did the increased competition for foreign markets and the growing importance of domestic demand lead to in late nineteenth-century Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) The elimination of trade restrictions like tariffs 
B) A strong reaction against free trade and imposition of steep protective tariffs by most nations 
C) Greater economic instability and a sequence of ever deeper economic depressions 
D) Closer economic cooperation among the great powers 
E) Greater investment by the United States in the European economy 
A) The elimination of trade restrictions like tariffs 
B) A strong reaction against free trade and imposition of steep protective tariffs by most nations 
C) Greater economic instability and a sequence of ever deeper economic depressions 
D) Closer economic cooperation among the great powers 
E) Greater investment by the United States in the European economy

Question 7

What was the single largest political party in Germany by 1912?

Accepted Answer

A) Nazis 
B) Greens 
C) Social Democrats 
D) Bolsheviks 
E) Mensheviks 
A) Nazis 
B) Greens 
C) Social Democrats 
D) Bolsheviks 
E) Mensheviks

Question 8

Emperor Francis Joseph ignored ministerial responsibility and ruled by decree when parliament was not in session.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

What occurred in a cartel?

Accepted Answer

A) A vertically integrated company worked to monopolize all business in its industry. 
B) Independent enterprises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas. 
C) Independent associations of grocers cooperated to artificially drive down prices. 
D) Private militias orchestrated intelligence gathering to diminish the police powers of modern nation states. 
E) Dependent enterprises worked with an overseeing organization to lower tariffs. 
A) A vertically integrated company worked to monopolize all business in its industry. 
B) Independent enterprises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas. 
C) Independent associations of grocers cooperated to artificially drive down prices. 
D) Private militias orchestrated intelligence gathering to diminish the police powers of modern nation states. 
E) Dependent enterprises worked with an overseeing organization to lower tariffs.

Question 10

What new energy source powered the second industrial revolution?

Accepted Answer

A) Coal 
B) Hydroelectric 
C) Natural gas 
D) Electricity 
E) Fuel-cells 
A) Coal 
B) Hydroelectric 
C) Natural gas 
D) Electricity 
E) Fuel-cells

Question 11

Almost ____ percent of Europeans belonged to the lower classes.

Accepted Answer

A) 90 
B) 80 
C) 55 
D) 40 
E) 25 
A) 90 
B) 80 
C) 55 
D) 40 
E) 25

Question 12

After 1870, industrialization outside of Europe and North America was most notable in

Accepted Answer

A) North Africa. 
B) China. 
C) South America. 
D) the Middle East. 
E) Japan. 
A) North Africa. 
B) China. 
C) South America. 
D) the Middle East. 
E) Japan.

Question 13

What was true of Italy in the late nineteenth century?

Accepted Answer

A) Italy returned to the status of a great power. 
B) Italy's unification was vigorously supported by the pope. 
C) Italy became a preeminent colonial power, especially in Africa. 
D) Italy remained a second-rate European power. 
E) Italy created a powerful industrial middle-class society. 
A) Italy returned to the status of a great power. 
B) Italy's unification was vigorously supported by the pope. 
C) Italy became a preeminent colonial power, especially in Africa. 
D) Italy remained a second-rate European power. 
E) Italy created a powerful industrial middle-class society.

Question 14

In 1914, which country had the largest trade union movement in Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) France 
B) Italy 
C) Britain 
D) Austria-Hungary 
E) Spain 
A) France 
B) Italy 
C) Britain 
D) Austria-Hungary 
E) Spain

Question 15

In Britain, ____ led the movement to illuminate homes and cities with electric light.

Accepted Answer

A) Thomas Edison 
B) Joseph Swan 
C) Michael Faraday 
D) Alexander Graham Bell 
E) Guglielmo Marconi 
A) Thomas Edison 
B) Joseph Swan 
C) Michael Faraday 
D) Alexander Graham Bell 
E) Guglielmo Marconi

Question 16

The chief motive for mass education was

Accepted Answer

A) political. 
B) social. 
C) religious. 
D) economic. 
E) ideological. 
A) political. 
B) social. 
C) religious. 
D) economic. 
E) ideological.

Question 17

Elizabeth Poole Sanford would most likely have agreed with which of these statements?

Accepted Answer

A) Women should avoid being self-sufficient. 
B) Women should strive to become equal to men. 
C) Women should accept their roles at home until new governmental reforms were instituted. 
D) Women should make it known to their husbands that they were dissatisfied. 
E) Women should take employment outside the home to become economically self-sufficient. 
A) Women should avoid being self-sufficient. 
B) Women should strive to become equal to men. 
C) Women should accept their roles at home until new governmental reforms were instituted. 
D) Women should make it known to their husbands that they were dissatisfied. 
E) Women should take employment outside the home to become economically self-sufficient.

Question 18

Between 1850 and 1900, wages in Germany and Britain

Accepted Answer

A) decreased. 
B) more than tripled. 
C) remained stagnant. 
D) increased. 
E) failed to keep up with inflation. 
A) decreased. 
B) more than tripled. 
C) remained stagnant. 
D) increased. 
E) failed to keep up with inflation.

Question 19

Which woman became a leading figure of the Paris Commune?

Accepted Answer

A) Louis Michel 
B) Octavia Hill 
C) Elizabeth Poole Sanford 
D) Aletta Jacob 
E) Consuelo Vanderbilt 
A) Louis Michel 
B) Octavia Hill 
C) Elizabeth Poole Sanford 
D) Aletta Jacob 
E) Consuelo Vanderbilt

Question 20

The European middle classes embraced and promoted the importance of progress and science.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

What was a new development in the age of mass leisure?

What was true of daughters in European working-class families?

What did Eduard Bernstein claim in his book Evolutionary Socialism?

Living conditions in cities improved due to all of these reforms EXCEPT

What was the chief cause of rising European populations between 1850 and 1880?

What did the increased competition for foreign markets and the growing importance of domestic demand lead to in late nineteenth-century Europe?

What was the single largest political party in Germany by 1912?

Emperor Francis Joseph ignored ministerial responsibility and ruled by decree when parliament was not in session.

What occurred in a cartel?

What new energy source powered the second industrial revolution?

Almost ____ percent of Europeans belonged to the lower classes.

After 1870, industrialization outside of Europe and North America was most notable in

What was true of Italy in the late nineteenth century?

In 1914, which country had the largest trade union movement in Europe?

In Britain, ____ led the movement to illuminate homes and cities with electric light.

The chief motive for mass education was

Elizabeth Poole Sanford would most likely have agreed with which of these statements?

Between 1850 and 1900, wages in Germany and Britain

Which woman became a leading figure of the Paris Commune?

The European middle classes embraced and promoted the importance of progress and science.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 10: Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894

What was a new development in the age of mass leisure?

What was true of daughters in European working-class families?

What did Eduard Bernstein claim in his book Evolutionary Socialism?

Living conditions in cities improved due to all of these reforms EXCEPT

What was the chief cause of rising European populations between 1850 and 1880?

What did the increased competition for foreign markets and the growing importance of domestic demand lead to in late nineteenth-century Europe?

What was the single largest political party in Germany by 1912?

Emperor Francis Joseph ignored ministerial responsibility and ruled by decree when parliament was not in session.

What occurred in a cartel?

What new energy source powered the second industrial revolution?

Almost ____ percent of Europeans belonged to the lower classes.

After 1870, industrialization outside of Europe and North America was most notable in

What was true of Italy in the late nineteenth century?

In 1914, which country had the largest trade union movement in Europe?

In Britain, ____ led the movement to illuminate homes and cities with electric light.

The chief motive for mass education was

Elizabeth Poole Sanford would most likely have agreed with which of these statements?

Between 1850 and 1900, wages in Germany and Britain

Which woman became a leading figure of the Paris Commune?

The European middle classes embraced and promoted the importance of progress and science.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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