Question 1

The Periodic Table of elements was developed by the Russian physicist Dmitri ________.

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Question 2

The Russian scientist Ivan ________ is known for his psychological experiments with dogs.

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Question 3

The discovery that bacteria could cause disease was made by ________.

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Question 4

Joseph _________ greatly improved the safety of surgical procedures late in the nineteenth century.

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Question 5

In the late nineteenth century the prevailing tendency in literature went from romanticism to________.

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Question 6

_________ was a playwright who wrote about how bourgeois society restricted women.

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Question 7

The nineteenth century artistic movement typified by Claude Monet was called ________.

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Question 8

__________ demonstrated that space, time and motion were all relative was.

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Question 9

Psychoanalysis was developed by ________.

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Question 10

Freud believed that much of human behavior was rooted in the ________.

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Question 11

German philosopher ___________ rejected democracy and Christianity as a refuge for the weak and mediocre.

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Question 12

The artistic movement of the late nineteenth century that emphasized subjective, often abstract paintings was ________.

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Question 13

What were the major technological changes during the "Second Industrial Revolution" in the late nineteenth century and how did they change society and patterns of living?

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Question 14

Describe the major class divisions in later nineteenth century European cities and the behavior of each of these divisions, including the role of women in each group.

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Question 15

Describe the major scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century and show how these affected both the daily lives and the mentality of Europeans.

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Question 16

Describe family life in the late nineteenth century, including the roles of fathers and mothers, as well as the sexual problems that arose both within and without family life.

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Question 17

How did people adjust to the opportunities and the pressures of life in the European cities of the late nineteenth century?

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Question 18

Are the ideas of Freud and Nietzsche, coupled with artistic expressionism, compatible with the phrase "the Culture of Progress" which the text identifies as an important theme of the late nineteenth century?

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Question 19

Which has had the greater effect on the life of Europeans, the revolutions of 1849-1848 or the "First" and "Second" Industrial Revolutions?

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Question 20

Can the era 1870-1914 be called an era of progress? Discuss factors in Chapter 21 that would argue positively and factors that could argue negatively.

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Quiz 21: Modern Life and the Culture of Progress: Western Society, 1850-1914