WorksheetsEuro Test Unit 16,17
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 19mins
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The view expressed by Sigmund Freud in the attached escerpt is Best seen as evidence of which of the following in European Society?
The further definition of Absolute values as applies to society
Tye belief that conflict and struggle lead to progress
Philosophy moving from rational interpretations of human nature to an emphasis on emotion and impulse.
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following BEST explains the intellectual theory behind this statement?
A new account of human nature based on the struggle between the conscious and the subconscious
Developments in the natural sciences such as quantum physics
Shared ideas and values such as beauty and patriotism
Refer to the attached document to answer the following questions: Freud’s views relate to the views expressed in modern art during this period in which of the following ways?
Encouraging idealized values such as conformity and beauty
Moving beyond the presentational to the subjective, abstract, and expensive
Encouraging an objective description of nature.
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The tone of the statement best reflects which of the following developments in Europe?
The primacy of Newtonian physics. As an objective description of nature
A new emphasis on the struggle between the conscious and the unconscious
A new relativism in values leading to modernism in intellectual life
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Of the following, which best explains why Nietzsche saw a link “no objectives” and “chance”
The loss of confidence in the objectivity of knowledge
The belief that conflict and struggle lead to progress
The growing emphasis on impulse in European society.
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Nietzsche’s argument in the attached document most clearly supports which of the following ideologies?
Positivism
Individualism
Subjectivism
Rationalism
Darwin’s theory of evolution created a lot of controversy after he:
tried to apply it to all human behavior
Argued that humans also evolved from a primitive species
claimed evolution was incompatible with religion
Growing uncertainty that was creeping into scientific circles about the possibility of understanding the physical world was epitomized in physics in the work of:
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Ivan Parlov
Robert Koch
Realist playwrights, such as Henrilk Ibsen, sough to:
Strip away the illusion of middle-class morality
Essentuate the horrors of nationalism.
Rebuke the works of George Bernard Shaw.
An impressionable painter would:
Rejected modern urban life
Tried to realistically portray lower classes
Embraced modern life
Modern artists sought to represent:
The truth within
Traditional themes
The external appearance
The focus on the methods of science and the every day of urban life during the second half of the nineteenth century was paralleled in the arts by:
Romanticism
Classicism
Realism
Impressionism
Industrial prosperity aided the growth of secularism because it:
Encouraged skepticism
Moved them into cities
Increased wealth
Increased work time
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The phrase “finest race in the world,” suggests that the author ascribes to which of the following intellectual trends in ate nineteenth-century Europe?
Social Darwinism
Classical liberalism
Utopian socialism
Utilitarianism
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following events is the Most likely historical context for the writing of this passage?
Passage of the Home Rule Act of Ireland
The ceding of New France to British administration
Expansion of British colonial in Southern Africa
Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following histrical events BEST refutes the claim made by Cecil Rhodes in this passage?
The British constructed irrigation systems that improved agricultural output in their African territpories
African colonies offered new economic opportunities to settlers from Great Britain
The Boer Wars engulfed southern Africa in conflict between 1880 and 1902
Lenin’s argument that the new age of imperialism was the final stage of capitalism is flawed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
No raw materials were found in new colonies
European investments abroad were larger before 1875 than afterwards
Many colonies cost more to maintain than was returned by investment in them
Bismarck’s attitude towards acquiring colonial possessions for Germany was:
Limited interest
Indifferent
Total o
All of the following are valid generalizations about European imperialism in China EXCEPT:
China lost its outlying territories
Europeans residing in China were not subject to Chinese law
China was partitioned by birth Europeans and Japan
The main impact of the Conference of Berlin, which met in 1884, was that it set standards for:
A unified European economy
European conquest of Africa
Dividing up Antarctica
The colonization of the Belgian Congo is known for:
The spirited resistance of the Congolese people.
The brutal treatment of the Congolese people by King Leopold II
A policy of free trade that encouraged merchants from all countries
Oil France, Alfred Dreyfus’s innocence was supported by:
Monarchists
Nationalists
Socialists and republicans
Conservatives
After 1869, the British became very interested in Egypt because:
Of its wheat industry
They wanted to import inexpensive tea
The Suez Canal was vital for securing their link to India
The term “Great Game” refers to:
The debate that took place at the Berlin Conference
The contest between Britain and Russia over Muslim lands in Central Asia
The Boer War over South Aftica
Which is an accurate statement about partitioning of Africa by European imperialist nations during the 1800s?
New nations were based on old tribal boundaries
The cultural and ethnic diversity of African people was disregarded
The continent was divided equally among the colonial powers
Which of the Following was NOT a cause of imperialism?
Desire for new markets and investment opportunities
Nationalism
A longing to expand European cultural horizons
The “white man’s burden”
How did imperialism aid European nations economies?
They controlled slave labor
They controlled resources of colonies
They controlled the seas
They controlled knowledge and technology
Imperialism of the 1870 to 1914 period can best be described as:
The establishment of European democratic government in the non-European world
The imposition by Europeans of their social, economic , and political systems upon non-Europeans
Development of a profitable trade with non-western regions
In the wake of Industrial Revolution and as Britain’s share on India’s economy grew, the British increasingly sought tot create markets for their own goods there and shunt Indian experts toward:
The exclusive use of the Indian domestic market
Importing goods from European nations
Exporting goods to European nations
The exclusive use of the British domestic market
All of the following European nations were major imperial powers from 1870 to 1915 EXCEPT:
Germany
France
Belgium
Austria
What happened at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan in 1898
Europeans lost to African troops for the first time.
British machine guns cut down 11,000 Muslim tribes’ men, while only 28 British soldiers died.
British soldiers were overcome by malaria.
The new drug that protected Europeans against malaria was:
Quinine
Opium
Chloroform
Penicillin
The initial catalyst fueling the imperialist race by European powers in the first half of the nineteenth century had its origins in_____ in the late eighteenth century designed to drive the Ottomans back into Asia and convert Istanbul into an eastern Christian capital, whereby other Europeans became strategically involved in the affairs of the Ottoman Empire.
Great Britain’s imperialist policies
Napoleon’s imperialist policies
Russia’s southern expansion pattern
Great Britain used ending local customs like Sati to justify:
Converting the Indian people to Christianity
Imperialism
Command economies
Who governed India prior to Sepoy Mutiny of 1857?
The British government
The French government
The British East India company
Why were European nations able to achieve easy victories over Africa and Asia?
Innate racial superiority
Better intelligence
Technological superiority
Colonialism on the coast of West Africa after 1885 was an outgrowth of the traditional:
International slave trade
Gold and salt trade
Trade fort system
