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Question #1
At the end of the nineteenth century, white-collar employees were identified with what group?
A.   Labor aristocracy
B.   The propertied class
C.   The middle class
D.   The working class
Question #2
An English law passed in 1882 granted which of the following to married women?
A.   The right to attend universities
B.   Voting rights
C.   Equal wages
D.   Full property rights
Question #3
Which of the following was true of the Karlsbad Decrees?
A.   They sparked the revolutions of 1848.
B.   They established a constitutional monarchy in France.
C.   They created a military alliance out of the Congress of Vienna.
D.   They instituted repressive measures in the German Confederation.
Question #4
What did the journalist Theodor Herzl advocate?
A.   The full emancipation of Jews in Prussia
B.   The creation of a Jewish state
C.   The unification of Austria and Prussia
D.   Economic equality for German women
Question #5
Camillo Benso di Cavour sought to unite Italy under the authority of what state(s)?
A.   Naples
B.   Sicily
C.   Sardinia
D.   The Papal States
Question #6
Who co-wrote The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx?
A.   Henri de Saint-Simon
B.   Charles Fourier
C.   Robert Owen
D.   Friedrich Engels
Question #7
By 1913–1914, where had women gained the right to vote?
A.   France and the Netherlands
B.   Germany
C.   Norway and parts of the western United States
D.   Great Britain and Sweden
Question #8
Which of the following pushed Russia toward modernization?
A.   The loss of Silesia to Austria
B.   An unsuccessful war with Poland
C.   A rebellion of serfs
D.   The Crimean War
Question #9
What did Charles Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection tend to reinforce?
A.   Views of secularists such as Spencer and Marx
B.   The Catholic Church's opposition to expansion of political participation
C.   The bacterial theory of disease tested by Pasteur
D.   The drive for universal public education in Europe
Question #10
In the nineteenth century, same-sex attraction was identified as which of the following?
A.   A generally accepted sexual practice
B.   Acceptable only among the upper classes
C.   A perversion
D.   Legally protected for single men only
Question #11
What changed politically in France as a result of the brutal destruction of the Paris Commune?
A.   The National Assembly was closed.
B.   The 1871 national elections were called off.
C.   France formed a new national unity.
D.   Radicals made strong gains in the 1871 national elections.
Question #12
Who was the leader of the final campaign to unite north and south Italy?
A.   Camillo Benso di Cavour
B.   Giuseppe Garibaldi
C.   Father Gioberti
D.   Victor Emmanuel
Question #13
What transportation innovation was introduced to European cities in the 1890s?
A.   Trains
B.   Steam cars
C.   Electric streetcars
D.   Bicycles
Question #14
Where did the doctrine of socialism begin?
A.   Russia
B.   Great Britain
C.   France
D.   Germany
Question #15
What was one important German response to the Austro-Prussian War of 1866?
A.   Critics of the government were imprisoned and/or deported by Bismarck.
B.   Middle-class liberals adopted Bismarck's brand of nationalism.
C.   Catholics formed a political party to protect their interests.
D.   Industrial workers rebelled and captured Wilhelm I.
Question #16
In central and eastern Europe, what did romantic writers focus on?
A.   Local languages and peasant folktales, songs, and proverbs
B.   Emulating French culture
C.   The glorification of their national heroes
D.   Subjects from the ancient world
Question #17
What ideas united the victorious allies at the Congress of Vienna?
A.   They all wanted to resurrect the Holy Roman Empire under Habsburg rule.
B.   They were all motivated by a desire to punish France harshly and reduced it in size.
C.   They were all motivated by traditional ideas about the balance of power.
D.   They sought to establish constitutional monarchies in the areas conquered by Napoleon.
Question #18
How did the upper middle class change as the nineteenth century progressed?
A.   It expressed a high degree of social conscience.
B.   It tended to merge with the old aristocracy.
C.   It began to form tighter bonds with the rest of the middle class.
D.   It retained a frugal attitude and modest display of wealth.

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