History - World History
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Question: 1 Athenians in the Homeric Age
1: were monotheists
2: worshipped adapted versions of Phoenician deities
3: didn’t focus on morality so much as on avoiding their
gods’ wrath
4: wrote many books about their religious beliefs
Question: 2
Athens practiced
1: direct democracy
2: representative democracy
3: social democracy
4: capitalism
Question: 3 True of False?
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a basic legal principle inherited from Sparta.
1: True
2: False
Question: 4 Ancient Greeks considered "tyrants" to be
1: cruel rulers that overthrew democratically elected officials
and oppressed the people
2: rulers that seized power from nobles, ruled alone, and
promised to bring peace and prosperity to the poor
3: representatives selected by the people to represent them at
the Agora
4: elitists who claimed power through hereditary right
Question: 5 In the classic dialogue The Republic, Plato wrote
Unless either philosophers become kings in their countries or those who are now
called kings and rulers come to be sufficiently inspired with a genuine desire for
wisdom; unless, that is to say, political power and philosophy meet together...there
can be no rest from troubles...for states or for all mankind.
We can infer from this statement that:
1: Plato felt the best rulers were members of the middle class
2: Aristocrats are the only fit rulers
3: The most effective kings are those that listen to their
counselors
4: Peace can only prevail if kings are also philosophers
Question: 6 Aristotle believed that in their purest forms, monarchy, democracy and
aristocracy could all be corrupted. Instead, the best governments should meld
elements of all three.
This idea implies
1: that even though people were capable of self-rule, they
needed a strong ruler at the top.
2: In a good government, all power groups must be offset by
checks and balances
3: without limitations, all people are corruptible.
4: All answer choices are correct.
Question: 7 The Magna Carta laid the foundation for a written social contract
between the government and the people.
1: True
2: False
Question: 8 The Magna Carta protected the rights and property of all those
considered to be free men.
1: True
2: False
Question: 9 The Magna Carta introduced a balance of power between a king and
his people.
1: True
2: False
Question: 10 True or false?
The development of the parliamentary system in England dates back to the 13th
Century, having evolved from the Magna Carta.
1: True
2: False
Question: 11
True or False?
Much of the United States Constitution is based upon the French Declaration of the
Rights of Man.
1: True
2: False
Question: 12 ________ said "I think, therefore, I am."
1: Rosseau
2: Voltaire
3: Locke
4: Descartes
Question: 13 Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" was important
because
1: It allowed for the possibility of questioning established
knowledge and order.
2: It was the first appearance of a syllogism.
3: It was uttered by Pope Innocent I, an important reformer.
4: It established that God possessed a mind.
Question: 14 The Enlightenment can best be described as
1: The rediscovery of lost classical texts
2: A new way of thinking that emphasized human reason
over unexamined faith or acceptance of established views
3: An artistic movement
4: A time of economic revolution
Question: 15 John Locke wrote that all people are created equal and are endowed
by their Creator with certain "inalienable rights" that cannot be taken from them.
Among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. All powers of
government belong to the people. No government can exist without the consent of
its citizens because citizens create governments to protect individual rights. If a
government fails to protect or attempts to destroy the people's rights, the people
have the right "to alter or abolish" the government and set up a new government
that will safeguard their rights.
Name the important document that declares these rights belong to every man and
cite its date.
1: Civil Disobedience, 1798
2: The Treatise on Reason, 1772
3: The Manifessto of the French Revolution, 1796.
4: The American Declaration of Independence, 1776.
Question: 16 Rosseau wrote that history repeats itself in cycles of decay, and that
we have only to look to Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Byzantine Empire for
evidence of this statement's truth. He believed that the only way to redress this
cycle of decay was to create just laws and wise governments based upon the
popular will of the people.
Three important documents from the 17th and 18th centuries guarantee the rights of
the people against arbitrary rule. Which document does NOT guarantee the right of
the people against arbitrary rule?
1: The English Bill of Rights of 1689
2: The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of
1789
3: The U.S. Bill of Rights of 1791
4: The Declaration of Independence
Question: 17 In the mid 1800s the Emperor Napoleon spread nationalism across
Europe and into Italy. What did the Italian nationalists want for their country and who
prevented them from obtaining their goal for a generation?
1: a return to monarchy; the Pope
2: annexation of Austria; the Pope
3: a united Italy; the Austrians
4: a united Italy; Napoleon
Question: 18 Match the following:
1. This person rejected everything based on anyone else’s authority. He thought
Science would help humanity conquer nature and would end all the suffering in the
world.
2. This person was one the greatest scientists of all time. He published his
“Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,” which contained his laws of motion
and universal gravitation. He stated that all bodies attract each other with a force
that can measured.
3. Building a telescope, this person observed that the moons of Jupiter rotated
around the planet, thus disproving Ptolemy’s theory that every heavenly body
revolves around the earth. The church disapproved because the theory seemed to
contradict the Bible. The Inquisition summoned this man to Rome where he was
ordered to renounce his belief that the earth moves around the sun.
4. This person used mathematics to test the heliocentric theory of Copernicus. He
discovered that the planets made their orbits around the sun, not in circles, but in
ellipses. The heliocentric theory could now be mathematically proven.
a. Galileo's telescope
b. Johannes Kepler
c. Isaac Newton
d. Francis Bacon
1: 1. b; 2. c; 3. a; 4. d
2: 1. d; 2. c; 3. a; 4. b
3: 1. c; 2. d; 3. a; 4. b
4: 1. d; 2. c; 3. b; 4. a
Question: 19
Members of the Third Estate stormed the Bastille in 1789 because
1: They demanded religious freedom.
2: They wanted to overthrow the Hapsburgs.
3: They wished to destroy the seat and symbol of tyranny.
4: They wanted to protect their King, who was locked up
inside.
Question: 20 An important first cause of the Industrial Revolution in England was
1: Crop rotation, changes in grazing laws
2: The Enclosure Movement, which limited grazing rights
and forced rural people into cities to seek employment
3: The development of the English middle class
4: The supremacy of the English educational system
Question: 21 The basic resources necessary for industrialization are
1: land, capital and labor
2: civic unrest, landed gentry and overland trade routes
3: plows, looms, and assembly lines
4: urbanization, cheap labor and products
Question: 22 Match the following:
1. A system of social organization in which property is held in common. In modern
usage, this term refers to a political movement that seeks to overthrow capitalism
through revolution and to establish a classless society in which all goods are
commonly owned.
2. Collective or government ownership and management of the means of
production. This system calls for cooperation and social service in place of
competition.
3. A system wherein the concept of democracy is extended to the economic level.
This system is a reform arm of traditional socialism. Opportunities for capitalism
exist, but the government heavily regulates the means of production.
4. Economic system based on private ownership of the means of production,
wherein personal profit can be acquired through investment of capital and the
employment of labor. This system is reliant on the concept of the Free Market, as
articulated by economist Adam Smith.
a. Social Democracy
b. Capitalism
c. Communism
d. Socialism
1: 1. a; 2. d; 3. c; 4. b
2: 1. d; 2. c; 3. a; 4. b
3: 1. c; 2. d; 3. a; 4. b
4: 1. b; 2. d; 3. a; 4. c
Question: 23 This author wrote works of fiction that were shaprly critical of
Industrial England.
1: Karl Marx
2: Percy Bysshe Shelley
3: Jane Austen
4: Charles Dickens
Question: 24 True or False?
The slave trade was an important part of Britain's Industrial Revolution.
1: True
2: False
Question: 25 U.S. President Millard Filmore sent a naval force to Japan in 1853 to
1: Negotiate more favorable trade terms for silk
2: Open Japanese ports to foreign nations
3: Oust the Tokugawa shogunate
4: Remove Japan from Korea
Question: 26 The Middle Passage
1: was the title of a revolutionary journal
2: was one leg of the Triangular Slave Trade system
3: was a consortium of Dutch and Spanish explorers
4: refers to the Panama Canal
Question: 27 The "Boxers" of the Boxer Rebellion
1: were reacting to the increasing presence of foreigners in
China
2: were stopped by an army comprised of forces from Great
Britian, France, Germany, Russia, Japan and the United
States
3: were a patriotic movement whose proper name was the
Society of Righteous and Harmoniuous Fists
4: All of the above
Question: 28 How did the alliance system contribute to WWI?
1: It isolated the Austro-Hungarian empire.
2: It divided Europe into two opposing, armed camps.
3: It threw Africa into disarray.
4: It provided financial incentives to military manufacturers in
Europe and America.
Question: 29 Britain's interest in WW I was initally tied to its desire to
1: Protect the Suez Canal
2: Expand its colonial holdings
3: Support its Russian allies
4: Retain its control of India
Question: 30 Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assasinated on June 28, 1914 in
Sarajevo by a member of
1: the Red Army.
2: the Black Hand.
3: the Hague.
4: the Prussian parliament.
Question: 31 During the First World War, Germany declared war on
1: Russia and France
2: Belgium and Great Britain
3: Serbia and Austria-Hungary
4: England and France
Question: 32 Which weapon or tactic was NOT introduced in WWI.
1: machine guns
2: atomic warfare
3: submarines
4: chemical warfare
Question: 33 The Lusitania was transporting
1: Alfred Zimmerman
2: Munitions
3: Contraband
4: Refugees
Question: 34 Which American President introduced the Fourteen Points?
1: Taft
2: Theodore Roosevelt
3: Coolidge
4: Wilson
Question: 35 True or False?
Germany willingly signed the Treaty of Versailles.
1: True
2: False
Question: 36 Lenin advocated a modified form of Marxism because
1: Russia had little in the way of industry.
2: He had some latent Capitalist inclinations.
3: Russia had been so financially devastated by WW I that
there was no capital to redistribute.
4: He did not want the people to be able to vote him out of
office.
Question: 37
True or False?
Stalin advocated spreading Socialism around the world.
1: True
2: False
Question: 38
Mohandas Gandhi employed _______________ in his struggle against British
colonial rule.
1: nonviolent cooperation
2: violent noncooperation
3: nonviolent noncooperation
4: He employed all of these tactics.
Question: 39 Hitler annexed the Sudentenland in Czechoslavakia, and he did it
with the full cooperation of the ruling Western European powers. What was the
name of the policy that allowed this turn of events?
1: Capitulation
2: Cooperation
3: Coup d'etat
4: Appeasement
Question: 40 Name the three major member states of the Axis powers.
1: France, Spain, Portugal
2: Germany, Russia, Italy
3: Spain, Russia, France
4: Germany, Japan and Italy
Question: 41 "We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall
fight in the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and
growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost
may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landinggrounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the
hills; we shall never surrender; and even if, which I do not for a moment
believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then
our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would
carry on the struggle, until, in God's time, the New World, with all its power
and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old."
Who delivered the stirring speech quoted above, and what precipitated it?
1: Winston Churchill, in response to the Allied defeat at
Dunkirk
2: Neville Chamberlain, in response to Germany's invasion of
Poland
3: Queen Wilhemina of The Netherlands, in response to the
bombing of Rotterdam
4: President Truman as the U.S. entered WW II
Question: 42 WW II officially began when Britian and France declared war on
Germany. What prompted them to do this?
1: Germany invaded Hungary.
2: Germany invaded Poland.
3: Germany invaded Bulgaria.
4: Germany invaded Romania.
Question: 43 What was the Lend-Lease Act?
1: The United States' first draft law
2: A loan of U.S. troops to European allies
3: A move by the U.S. Congress that allowed President
Roosevelt to supply war materials to Britain on credit
4: An agreement that allowed British troops to train at U.S.
military bases overseas
Question: 44 What is the name of the tactic the Soviets used against Germany?
1: Final Solution
2: Detente
3: Phalanx Flanking
4: Scorched Earth
Question: 45
Why did some Americans advocate isolationism?
1: They thought Europe should deal with its own problems.
2: The U.S. was still reeling from the Great Depression and
couldn't afford to get involved.
3: The Monroe Doctrine forbade intervention in foreign wars.
4: They didn't wish to repeat the experience of WW I.
Question: 46 What happened on June 6, 1944?
1: Pearl Harbor was bombed by theJapanese.
2: D-Day (The Allied landing at Normandy)
3: The United States declared war on Japan.
4: The Treaty of Versailles was signed.
Question: 47
Why did President Truman decide to use the A-bomb on Japan?
1: The U.S. needed a place to test its new weapon.
2: Japan had refused to surrender after talks at Potsdam,
near Berlin in 1945.
3: He was eager to prove to the world that the U.S. was a
force to be reckoned with.
4: He needed leverage against Stalin.
Question: 48 What was "The Long March?"
1: Mao's exile to Taiwan
2: The name given to the trek undertaken by Chinese
communists fleeing Nationalist forces
3: Japan's expansion into Manchuria
4: The exodus from North Korea to South Korea after WW II
Question: 49 What was the "Iron Curtain?"
1: The Berlin Wall
2: The "Iron Curtain" was the censorship of the media that
occurred during WW II.
3: The "Iron Curtain" was a phrase coined by Churchill
that referred to the Soviet Union's grip on Eastern
European nations.
4: The "Iron Curtain" was the division of political philosophy
between Europe and Asia.
Question: 50
Choose the best answer from the choices below.
The Truman Doctrine:
1: set the stage for the Cold War.
2: articulated the belief that the spread of communism is a
threat to democracy.
3: outlined a policy known as containment.
4: all of the above