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1

Big business capitalists were able to raise money by selling stocks. _____
A)True
B)False
2

Manufacturers tried to create customer demand by building grandiose department stores. _____
A)True
B)False
3

The new wealth produced by the Second Industrial Revolution benefitted all socioeconomic levels equally. _____
A)True
B)False
4

By the beginning of the twentieth century, most of western Europe had experienced significant urbanization. _____
A)True
B)False
5

Horse-drawn carriages finally allowed people to live further away from urban centers. _____
A)True
B)False
6

Urban reconstruction in France pushed the poor out of the center of Paris into working-class suburbs. _____
A)True
B)False
7

Turn-of-the-century Europeans believed that athletics could impart character values. _____
A)True
B)False
8

By 1914, the middle class in Europe had decreased as a percentage of the overall population. _____
A)True
B)False
9

The home no longer remained the center of middle-class private life. _____
A)True
B)False
10

Because it was difficult to save enough for decent housing, workers might be more apt to purchase clothes with extra money and thereby enhance their public image. _____
A)True
B)False
11

The decline in the birth rate around the turn of the century suggests that people took measures to limit births. _____
A)True
B)False
12

When Darwin revealed that his theory of evolution applied to human beings, it was met without controversy. _____
A)True
B)False
13

Darwin's theory of evolution allowed dominant social groups to rationalize their positions. _____
A)True
B)False
14

As scholars attempted to apply scientific techniques and principles to other disciplines, the social sciences developed. _____
A)True
B)False
15

No major advances in the field of nursing happened during wartime. _____
A)True
B)False
16

Charles Dickens tended to write novels about the British aristocracy. _____
A)True
B)False
17

The ideas embodied in Albert Einstein's formula E=mc2 contributed to the later development of the atomic bomb. _____
A)True
B)False
18

Freud believed that the unconscious mind could be revealed by interpreting dreams. _____
A)True
B)False
19

Both Durkheim and Freud believed that the advance of civilization brought psychological pain. _____
A)True
B)False
20

Expressionist art attempted to present disturbing psychic realities and challenged artistic conventions. _____
A)True
B)False
21

According to Henry Ford, it was far better to employ workers in a large variety of stimulating jobs than to employ them in mindless, repetitive labors
A)True
B)False
22

During the period of the Second Industrial Revolution, the family was increasingly seen as a sacred place that was free of the intrusions of the outside world
A)True
B)False





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