Deck 24: An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

Question 1

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Social Darwinism

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Question 2

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psychoanalysis

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Question 3

How did the "new physics" challenge the established certainties of classical physics?

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Question 4

What are the defining characteristics of modernism?

Question 5

What led to the scramble for Africa? How did the colonization of Africa affect relations between the European powers?

Question 6

Compare and contrast political developments in Britain and France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. How would you explain the differences you note?

Question 7

Compare and contrast the responses of China and Japan to European and American imperialism?

Question 8

How did the place of Jews in European society change over the course of the nineteenth century?

Question 9

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relativity theory

Question 10

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General Friedrich von Bernhardi

Question 11

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Albert Einstein's E=mc2

Question 12

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Max Planck and quanta

Question 13

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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Question 14

What led to the conflict between modernization and traditionalism in William's Germany?

Question 15

Why did international rivalries intensify in Europe in the decade leading up to World War I

Question 16

What did nineteenth-century women's rights activists hope to achieve?

Question 17

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The ego, the id, and the superego

Question 18

What assumptions did Freud make about the workings of the human mind?

Question 19

How did the "new imperialism" differ from previous periods of European overseas expansion?

Question 20

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Question 21

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National Insurance Act of 1911

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William Butler Yates

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Impressionism

Question 24

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Cubism

Question 25

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Maria Montessori

Question 26

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political democracy

Question 27

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Wassily Kandinsky

Question 28

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abstract painting

Question 29

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economic imperialism

Question 30

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the "new woman"

Question 31

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Zionism

Question 32

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Post-Impressionism

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Naturalism

Question 34

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David Lloyd George

Question 35

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George Eastman

Question 36

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Alfred Dreyfus

Question 37

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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

Question 38

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suffragists

Question 39

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Vincent van Gogh

Question 40

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Émile Zola

Question 41

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Meiji Restoration

Question 42

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Emperor William II

Question 43

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Suez Canal

Question 44

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Empress of India

Question 45

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New Imperialism

Question 46

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Russo-Japanese War

Question 47

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Modernism

Question 48

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Boer War

Question 49

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Boxer Rebellion

Question 50

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sati

Question 51

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Hong Kong

Question 52

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Triple Alliance

Question 53

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Indian National Congress

Question 54

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Commodore Matthew Perry

Question 55

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Sun Yat-sen

Question 56

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Pan-German League

Question 57

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Cecil Rhodes

Question 58

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Spanish-American War

Question 59

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Bismarckian System

Question 60

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Triple Entente

Question 61

Einstein concluded that matter was

A)not really real.
B)just another form of energy.
C)fundamentally different than energy.
D)indestructible.
E)a form of time.

Question 62

Whose quantum theory raised fundamental questions about the subatomic realm of the atom?

A)Tesla
B)Einstein
C)Planck
D)Curie
E)Carver

Question 63

The ____ often portrayed characters caught in the grip of forces beyond their control.

A)Naturalists
B)Symbolists
C)Cubists
D)Impressionists
E)Post-Impressionists

Question 64

Which artistic style was a reaction against Realism?

A)Naturalism
B)Cubism
C)Post-Impressionism
D)Symbolism
E)Romanticism

Question 65

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Balkans' Crises

Question 66

What was the greatest difference between naturalism and realism in literature?

A)Realism dealt more with themes like human suffering.
B)Naturalism was more popular than realism.
C)Naturalism was generally more pessimistic than realism.
D)Realism was simply a continuation of naturalism.
E)Realism was more generally pessimistic than naturalism.

Question 67

What is the superego, according to Freud's theory of psychoanalysis?

A)The center of moral conscience
B)The center of rational calculation
C)The center of animal drives
D)The center of creative imagination
E)The center of troubles

Question 68

Who wrote the best example of naturalistic literature?

A)Victor Hugo
B)Charles Dickens
C)Albert Camus
D)Émile Zola
E)Gustave Flaubert

Question 69

Marie and Paul Curie discovered

A)platinum.
B)radium.
C)xenon.
D)krypton.
E)helium.

Question 70

With what artistic movement was Camille Pissarro associated?

A)Expressionism
B)Romanticism
C)Post-Impressionism
D)Impressionism
E)Dadaism

Question 71

What was a chief belief of Symbolists?

A)The supremacy of science over religion
B)The fundamental rationality of existence
C)The inability to obtain objective knowledge of the world
D)The functionality of art
E)The futility of art

Question 72

Florence Nightingale gained fame for her work during

A)the Danish War.
B)the Franco-Prussian War.
C)the Revolutions of 1848.
D)he Crimean War.
E)the Civil War.

Question 73

What was the process that drove unwanted thoughts into the unconscious in Freud's theory of psychoanalysis?

A)Self-gratification
B)Neural dysfunction
C)Animal drives
D)Repression
E)Id erasure

Question 74

What did Houston Stewart Chamberlain argue in his 1899-publication Foundations of the Nineteenth Century?

A)Germany would lead the world in high-tech manufacturing.
B)Germany would lead the Aryan race to the conquest of Europe.
C)Germany would be the European leader in music and the arts.
D)Germany would generate the next great world religion.
E)Germany would fail if they did not accept Jews as the originators of Western civilization.

Question 75

Social Darwinists argued that

A)each human being was absolutely unique.
B)much more should be done to help the poor.
C)interracial marriage was essential to human progress.
D)race was a human construct, not a biological reality.
E)human societies were organisms that changed over time.

Question 76

About what did Max Planck's quantum theory of energy raise fundamental questions?

A)The structure of stars
B)Acceptance of medieval theories of chemical reaction
C)The subatomic realm of the atom and the basic building blocks of the material world
D)The safe transmission of electrical energy for powering modern economies
E)The electro-dynamics of moving bodies

Question 77

According to Nietzsche, ____ was/were decadent and incapable of cultural creativity.

A)women
B)African societies
C)socialist political parties
D)China
E)Western bourgeois society

Question 78

In what two areas of science did Marie Curie win Nobel prizes?

A)Cellular biology and chemistry
B)Physics and cellular biology
C)Physics and chemistry
D)Geology and physics
E)Chemistry and astronomy

Question 79

What did Friedrich von Bernhardi see as essential for human progress?

A)War
B)Tolerance
C)Equality
D)Slavery
E)Peace

Question 80

What did Émile Zola say to explain his use of naturalism in his novels and his depiction of characters?

A)"I have never given up on nature and the uplifting lessons it can teach us."
B)"I have simply done on living bodies the work of analysis which surgeons perform on corpses."
C)"People are naturally bad and all my fictions are truths."
D)"My stories tell of a new Enlightenment."
E)"All life is a wasteland."