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Which of the following was the most
urbanized country in 1850?
a. Spain
b. Germany
c. France
d. England
e. Austria
During the first half of the nineteenth
century, the only thoroughly
mechanized industry was the
___________ industry.
a. chemical
b. textile
c. oil
d. mining
e. construction
The process by which laborers come
to participate in the wage labor force
is sometimes called:
a. trans-compensation
b. trans-capitalism
c. labor migration
d. monetization
e. proletarianization
4.
Early factory owners permitted a
man to employ whom as assistants?
A) his siblings
B) his wife
C) his children
D) both B and C
E) his parents
5.
David Ricardo’s Iron Law of Wages
states:
a. Industrial wages should
be increased
b. Population will outstrip
food supply
c. Increasing worker’s
wages is pointless
d. Wages should be set by
the government
e. Wages will be fair when
private property is
abolished
6.
In 1850 the largest group of
employed women in England
worked:
a. on the land
b. in factories
c. in the mining industry
d. in small businesses
e. as domestic servants
7.
In the late eighteenth century, the
British government sent persons
convicted of the most serious crimes:
a. to Australia
b. to South Africa
c. to India
d. to Canada
e. to South America
8.
Historians attribute the "population
explosion" of the eighteenth century
primarily to
a. the elimination of childhood
diseases
b. a more abundant food supply
c. the widespread introduction
of piped water and sewers
d. the eradication of childbirth
fever
e. new sanitary procedures in
hospitals
9.
The idea that population growth will
always outstrip food supply was put
forward by:
a. Jeremy Bentham
b. Adam Smith
c. David Ricardo
d. Thomas Malthus
e. John Stuart Mill
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Saint-Simon believed that, above all
else, modern society needed:
a. relaxation of gender roles
b. redistribution of wealth
c. a new conception of the
family
d. tighter controls on social
mores
e. rational management
Which of the following would NOT
be considered part of the Chartist
reform program?
a. women’s rights
b.annual election of the
House of Commons
c. universal manhood suffrage
d.salaries for Members of
Parliament
e. a secret ballot
15.
Charles Fourier believed that:
a. all European workers
should form a single trade
union
b. sex was at the heart of
social dysfunction
c. industrialization would
solve all social evils
d. industrialization ignored
the passionate side of
human nature
e. industrialization and
anarchy were compatible
Which of the following did NOT
contribute to the industrial strength
of Great Britain in the nineteenth
century?
a. natural resources
b.strong markets for British
goods
c. adequate financial
resources
d.considerable mobility
within society
e. German technological
advances
16.
The largest railroad network in
Europe before 1850 could be found
in:
a. England
b.France
c. Belgium
d.Germany
e. Italy
17.
In the 1830s, many British workers
linked the solution of their economic
plight to a program of political
reform known as:
a. Trade Unionism
b.New Labour
c. English Socialism
d.English Marxism
e. Chartism
18.
Anarchists:
a. rejected industry
Marx derived the major ideas of the
Communist Manifesto from:
a. Darwin’s theory of
evolution
b. the French Enlightenment
c. German Kantianism
d. German Hegelianism
e. the ideas of Malthus and
Ricardo
The dynamic force behind the
revolutions of 1848 was the:
a. working poor
b. political liberals/
nationalists
c. socialists
d. Marxists
e. landless peasants
b. rejected government
c. rejected both industry and
government
d. rejected all aspects of
socialism
e. were powerful political
players in Britain
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In Marx’s view, historical change
was, in all important respects, the
result of:
a. the emergence of men of
genius
b. class conflict
c. the unfolding of innate
ideas
d. pure chance
e. technological innovation
The Revolutions of 1848 erupted
first in:
a. Britain
b. Germany
c. Austria
d. France
e. Italy
21.
The single most powerful ideology
of the nineteenth century was:
a. nationalism
b. Eionism
c. conservatism
d. socialism
e. anarchism
22.
Migration from the countryside
during the 19th century produced a
situation in which:
A) the physical resources of
cities were stretched beyond
capacity.
B) the physical resources of
cities were able to be ratcheted
up to meet capacity.
C) crime rates were unaffected.
D) diseases were kept at bay.
E) most rural areas were left all
but depopulated.
23.
Economic liberals favored:
a. protective tariffs
b. free trade
c. price controls
d. progressive taxation
e. property taxes
24.
By the late 1830s, many British
workers hung their hopes for reform
on a platform known as:
A) Simonianism.
B) Fourierism.
C) Hegelianism.
D) Chartism.
E) Marxism.
25.
The Decembrist Revolt was led by:
a. junior officers
b. Russian socialists
c. leaders of the emerging
middle class
d. angry peasants
e. cabinet ministers
26.
Nicholas I saw serfdom as:
a. a great evil that required
immediate action
b. part of the natural order
of society
c. the basis of Russian
prosperity
d. a great evil, but too
dangerous to reform
e. consistent with Christian
teachings
27.
In the French elections of 1830, the
liberals:
a. saw their power
diminished
b. suffered an
unprecedented defeat
c. won a stunning victory
d. were not represented on
the ballot
e. saw their chances of
gaining power slip
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The Concert of Europe was:
a. a free trade zone
b. an arrangement for
resolving mutual foreign
policy issues
c. an organization of
economic liberals
d. a term for the cultural
flowering of the early
nineteenth century
e. a total failure
The real goal of early nineteenthcentury political liberals was:
a. mass democracy
b. the end of monarchy
c. free education for all
d. the end of poverty
e. political reform based on
private property
____________ was an important
complement to liberalism in this
period.
a. Socialism
b. Nationalism
c. Christianity
d. Urbanization
e. Industrialization
The Great Reform Bill:
a. reduced the power of the
British monarch
b. lowered grain tariffs
c. gave all adult men the
same political rights
d. ended capital punishment
in England
e. expanded the size of the
English electorate
32.
Alexander I’s reign (1801–1825) can
be considered as
a. liberal throughout
b. conservative throughout
c. liberal before Napoleon
and conservative after
d. a total disaster
e. a decisive turning point in
Russian history that
marked the end of the
Tsars
33.
Early in the nineteenth century
____________ assumed the role as a
protector of Serbia.
a. Austria
b. England
c. France
d. Russia
e. Prussia
34.
Metternich’s beliefs epitomized:
a. ethnic nationalism
b. national socialism
c. political liberalism
d. economic liberalism
e. conservatism
35.
15. The Four Ordinances issued by
Charles X did all of the following
EXCEPT:
a. restrict freedom of the
press
b. restrict the franchise to
only the wealthiest people
in the country
c. dissolve the Chamber of
Deputies
d. empowered the working
poor with voting rights
e. provoke a strong reaction
from the French public
36.
The Great Reform Bill of 1832
finally passed because:
a. of fears of mob violence
b. new elections were held
for the House of
Commons
c. the king threatened to alter
the structure of the House
of Lords
d. of the Peterloo Massacre
e. a plebiscite demonstrated
widespread popular
support for the bill
37.
Under Metternich’s leadership in the
early 1820s, Austria moved to
suppress revolutions in:
a. Belgium and Hungary
b. Italy and the Balkans
c. Prussia and the Balkans
d. Spain and Italy
e. Hungary and Prussia
38.
What power lost territory and
prestige as a result of the Greek
Revolution of 1821?
a. the Ottoman Empire
b. France
c. Britain
d. Austria
e. Russia
39.
Toussaint L’Ouverture led a
successful revolution in:
a. Corsica
b. Haiti
c. New Spain
d. Sardinia
e. Quebec
40.
The wars of independence in South
America were led by:
a. peninsulares
b. Creoles
c. mestizos
d. mulattos
e. maroons
41.
Which of the following countries
saw the most improvement in
agricultural methods in the
eighteenth century?
a. the Netherlands
b. Poland
c. Russia
d. Prussia
e. Spain
42.
The key invention that allowed
industrialization to spread from one
area of production to another was
the:
a. spinning jenny
b. water frame
c. steam engine
d. cotton gin
e. flying shuttle
43.
Serfs were worst off in:
a. Prussia
b. Russia
c. Austria
d. Poland
e. Hungary
44.
The most active proponents of the
innovations known collectively as
the Agricultural Revolution were:
a. urban elites
b. monarchs
c. peasants
d. landlords
e. intellectuals
45.
The Industrial Revolution came first
to:
a. France
b. Great Britain
c. Prussia
d. the Netherlands
e. Austria
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47.
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 nobility's
power over the urban population
"The whole history of society up to
now has been the history of class
Struggles. Our period, however, the
bourgeois period, is distinguished by
the fact that it has simplified class
antagonisms. All society is splitting
more and more into two great hostile
camps, into two large classes
opposing each other directly:
bourgeoisie and proletariat.
Which of the following wrote the
passage above?
(A) Prince von Metternich and
Viscount Castlereagh
(B) Karl Marx and Friedrich
Engels
(C) John Stuart Mill and Harriet
Taylor
(D) Beatrice and Sydney Webb
(E) Benjamin Disraeli and
William Gladstone
48.
Which of the following escaped the
revolutionary outburst of 1848?
(A) France
(B) Prussia
(C) Sweden
(D) Italy
(E) Austria
49.
The British Great Reform Act of
1832 did which of the following?
(A) Gave women the right to
vote.
(B) Granted universal male
suffrage.
(C) Limited the power of the
monarchy.
(D) Abolished the right of the
House of Lords to veto
legislation.
(E) Increased the voting power of
the middle class.
50.
The revolutions of 1848:
A) resulted in a unified middle
and working class.
B) were successful in
establishing liberal or national
states.
C) ended monarchy in Europe
forever.
D) won new political power for
the working class.
E) failed to establish liberal or
national states.
51.
Which of the following is not a
quote from “Star Wars”
a. “Use the force, Luke!”
b. “The needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the
few, or the one.”
c. “No! Try not. Do, or do
not. There is no try.”
d. “In my experience, there's
no such thing as luck
e. “Never tell me the odds!”
30.
Multiple Choice: 1-D, 2-B, 3-E, 4-D, 5C, 6-E, 7-A, 8-B, 9-D, 10-E,
11-D, 12-D, 13-B, 14-A, 15-E, 16-A, 17E, 18-C, 19-B, 20-D.
21-A, 22-A, 23-B, 24-D, 25-A, 26-D,
27-C, 28-B, 29-E, 30-B,
31-E, 32-C, 33-D, 34-E, 35-D, 36-C, 37D, 38-A, 39-B, 40-B.
41-A, 42-C, 43-B, 44-d, 45-B 46-B, 47B, 48-C, 49-E, 50-E
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