WorksheetsModern World History MCQ Practice
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 1hrs 4mins
Jean-Paul Marat was murdered during which historic event?
A. The Glorious Revolution.
B. The Reign of Terror.
C. The Great Fear.
D. The Decembrist Revolt.
How was Marat remembered by the radicals who led the "Reign of Terror"?
A. Marat was revered as a secular "saint" during the period when the "Cult of Reason" and the "Cult of the Supreme Being" required the de-Christianization of France.
B. Marat was blamed for the ultimate demise of the "Reign of Terror" and burned in effigy by French radicals.
C. Marat was labeled a counter-revolutionary traitor and his death was used as propaganda by the radicals to further their ability to stoke the fires of revolution.
D. Marat's role during the revolution was quickly marginalized due to Robespierre and Danton's desire for more power.
Which of the following represents the Revolutionary response to the issues in the document?
A. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy.
B. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.
C. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Citizen, Olympe de Gouges.
D. The Law of Suspects, 1793.
Which of the following documents served the same essential purpose as the cahiers served for the French Revolution?
A. Martin Luther's "95 Theses" for the Reformation.
B. "The Magna Carta" for the English Civil War.
C. "The Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin.
D. "The Prince" by Machiavelli.
Which of the following aspects of 18th century France is most reflected in the cahiers?
A. The use of Versailles to subvert the power of the nobility.
B. The use of letters of cachet by the nobility.
C. The feudal social structure of France.
D. The religious dominance of the Catholic Church.
Which of the following events MOST directly led to the event depicted in the image above?
A. The locking out of the Third Estate from the Estates General Meeting.
B. The rapid inflation in France caused by a drought and the economic troubles of the country.
C. The storming of the Bastille.
D. The beheading of Marie Antoinette.
Which feature of government established by The Constitution of 1791, created during the first phase of the Revolution, BEST fulfilled the ideas in the Declaration?
A. The mostly symbolic role given to the monarchy.
B. The establishment of the Revolutionary Tribunal.
C. The role of the Directors.
D. The establishment of the Cult of Reason.
Which of the following conclusion about the League of Nations is most directly supported by the above passage?
A. The League of Nations was very successful in the early years of its existence.
B. The League of Nations was weakened by the nonparticipation of major powers.
C. European leaders viewed the League of Nations skeptically.
D. The democratic successor states that successfully emerged after World War One were a direct result of the work of the League of Nations.
The above statement by David Lloyd George is most clearly an example of which of the following?
A. The postwar realities in Europe after World War One.
B. The conflicting goals of the peace negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference.
C. The emergence of democratic successor states in Europe.
D. Britain's leadership, along with the United States, in the League of Nations.
The views expressed in the excerpt above are best seen as evidence of which of the following in European history until after World War Two?
A. The desire to control the rise of Germany.
B. Conflicting goals of Europe and the world, leading to continual conflict and discord.
C. The rise of new states in Europe based on ethnic and historical circumstances.
D. The British tendency to isolate itself from the rest of Europe during difficult times in history.
The first excerpt alludes to which of the following political concepts?
A. National self-determination.
B. Perpetual European imperialism.
C. Total military disarmament.
D. Political transparency in all future international negotiations.
These excerpts are good examples of
A. The United States' desire to take itself out of future participation in international agreements.
B. Wilsonian idealism.
C. allied retribution against Germany.
D. America as the arsenal of democracy.
Which of the following was supported by the sentiments expressed in these excerpts?
A. Italy's desire to obtain territories on the other side of the Adriatic Sea.
B. France's need for revenge in 1871.
C. The United States' goal to achieve peace with honor.
D. The secret treaties made during World War I.
Which of the following would most likely have agreed with the cartoonist's viewpoint as expressed in the passage?
A. Woodrow Wilson.
B. German civilians.
C. Russian Bolsheviks.
D. The leaders of the German military.
Which of the following results of the Treaty of Versailles can be deduced from the cartoon?
A. The "Big Four" were not in complete agreement on the treaty's terms.
B. The terms of the Versailles settlement fatally hindered the economy of the Weimar Republic.
C. Germany was stripped of both its expansive overseas territories and Alsace-Lorraine.
D. Military restrictions rendered Germany virtually incapable of offensive war.
To the new German government, which of the following conditions of the Versailles settlement BEST exemplified the phrase "You've got to swallow it whether you like it or not" and would have had the worst effect on the Weimar Republic?
A. Germany was forced to accept blame for causing World War I.
B. Germany was stripped of its overseas colonies.
C. The resource-rich Rhineland was occupied by Allied troops.
D. Germany was forced to pay crippling monetary reparations to Allied nations.
The tone of the above statement best reflects which of the following developments in Europe between World War One and World War Two?
A. The promotion of charismatic leaders and the glorification of war.
B. The exploitation of postwar bitterness and economic instability by groups and individuals.
C. Propaganda that rejected democratic institutions to lure the disillusioned.
D. The glorification of nationalism to promote an economic agenda reinforcing the ideas of the "common good".
Which of the following would best support Mussolini's assertion above about democracy and socialism?
A. Authoritarian rule in Spain from 1936 to the mid-1970s.
B. The British government after the Glorious Revolution.
C. The United States' role in Europe during World War Two.
D. The emergence of representative government as an alternative to absolutism.
Mussolini's argument in the passage above most clearly supports which of the following ideologies?
A. Communism.
B. Fascism.
C. Anarchism.
D. Idealism.
Which of the following effects of hyperinflation had the MOST impact on the rise of radical political movements in Weimar Germany?
A. German cost of living increased 15-fold.
B. The occupation of the Ruhr Valley.
C. The devaluation of the German Mark.
D. German default on war reparations.
All of the following were likely causes of the economic phenomenon depicted in the graph EXCEPT
A. depletion of German gold reserves.
B. reparation demands.
C. wartime industrial damage.
D. currency speculation.
The economic phenomenon that gripped the Weimar Republic in its final days and is displayed in the graph is called
A. inflation.
B. currency redenomination.
C. hyperinflation.
D. currency devaluation.
A historian studying the Holocaust could use the sources to prove which of the following?
A. The newspaper helped to create popular support for the later legal disenfranchisement and segregation of German Jews.
B. The decline in circulation after the passage of the laws in 1935 showed German popular opposition to classifying mixed races.
C. Antisemitism was a cause of the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s.
D. A sizable number of mixed-race Germans began supporting anti-Semitic platforms like Der Stürmer in 1935.
Which event best reflects the sentiments demonstrated by the above two sources?
A. The Enabling Act of 1933.
B. The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923.
C. The Night of the Long Knives (1934).
D. Kristallnacht (1938).
Which of the following statements illustrates the goal of both sources?
A. To force Jewish emigration to Palestine.
B. To justify the invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union.
C. To establish a new racial order in Europe.
D. To explain the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.
