Question 1

The fundamental premise of existentialism is that

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A)  human destiny is programmed by the laws of natural science. 
B)  there is no god and thus humans are adrift in an absurd world. 
C)  each of the world's cultures has different autonomous units, and each is worthy of respect. 
D)  there is no hope. 
E)  human freedom is impossible.

Question 2

Student radicals in the late 1960s were critical of all of the following except

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A)  the Vietnam War. 
B)  the impersonal nature of modern society. 
C)  the lack of economic opportunities for university students. 
D)  the lack of relevancy in their education endeavors. 
E)  excessive Western materialism.

Question 3

The British author that criticized American policy in Vietnam in the book The Quiet American was

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A)  Graham Greene. 
B)  Nathalie Sarraute. 
C)  Albert Camus. 
D)  Samuel Beckett. 
E)  Francis Bacon.

Question 4

The European country whose application to join the European Union was controversial because of its human rights record and its large Muslim population is

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A)  Serbia. 
B)  Bulgaria. 
C)  the Ukraine. 
D)  Turkey. 
E)  Libya.

Question 5

A mathematical ordering of musical components that, once set in motion, essentially writes itself automatically, is

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A)  the twelve-tone harmonics. 
B)  atononalism. 
C)  minimalism. 
D)  electrode music. 
E)  serialism.

Question 6

The event that eventually led to the resignation of Charles de Gaulle as president of France was

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A)  the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, ending the "Prague Spring." 
B)  the failure keep Algeria within the French Empire. 
C)  a general strike by labor unions and a series of student riots. 
D)  America's rejection of de Gaulle's advice to get out of Vietnam. 
E)  Britain's refusal to allow France to join the Common Market.

Question 7

Identify the following terms: 
popular culture and high culture

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Question 8

The former Yugoslavian province where war broke out in 1999 and that required the intervention of NATO was

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A)  Slovenia. 
B)  Bosnia-Herzegovina. 
C)  Kosovo. 
D)  Serbia. 
E)  Croatia.

Question 9

Identify the following terms: 
 The Maastricht Treaty

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 The Maastricht...

Question 10

Identify the following terms: 
 "ethnic cleansing"

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 "ethnic cleansing"...

Question 11

The German who pursued the policy of Ostpolitik and who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his "opening toward the east" was

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A)  Walter Ulbricht. 
B)  Konrad Adenauer. 
C)  Helmut Kohl. 
D)  Helmut Schmidt. 
E)  Willy Brandt.

Question 12

Identify the following terms: 
 Graham Greene's The Quiet American

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 Graham Greene's...

Question 13

By the end of the twentieth century, in Europe

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A)  the population was once again increasing after a long period of stagnation. 
B)  working class women were earning the same salaries as men for equal work. 
C)  there are almost as many women in the workplace as men. 
D)  women still do not have the right to vote in France or Italy. 
E)  there was no interest in feminism or women's liberation, unlike in the United States.

Question 14

The European Economic Community was also known as the

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A)  Group of Six. 
B)  Common Market. 
C)  Alliance for Progress. 
D)  European Coal and Steel Community. 
E)  Warsaw Group.

Question 15

Identify the following terms: 
 Clement Atlee and the Labour Party

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 Clement Atlee...

Question 16

By 1992, the European Community

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A)  transacted one-quarter of the world's commerce. 
B)  had a population of 100 million. 
C)  had become a true United States of Europe, politically as well as economically. 
D)  still faced the challenge of each member nation using high tariffs to protect its own population from competition from other member states. 
E)  disintegrated due to the revival of hyper-nationalism.

Question 17

The financial crisis of 2008 hit which EU country hardest

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A)  Greece. 
B)  Ireland. 
C)  Italy. 
D)  Turkey. 
E)  Poland.

Question 18

Identify the following terms: 
 the Falklands War

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 the Falklands...

Question 19

The collapse of communism forced NATO to disband as the EU took charge of European military interests.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

To distance itself from its memories of the Hitler era, after World War II the capital of Germany was moved from Berlin to

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A)  Frankfurt. 
B)  Munich. 
C)  Weimar. 
D)  Bonn. 
E)  Cologne.

Exam 10: Postwar Europe: on the Path to Unity