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The author of All Quiet on the Western Front was |
| | A) | Ernest Hemingway. |
| | B) | Oswald Spengler. |
| | C) | Erich Maria Remarque. |
| | D) | W. Somerset Maugham. |
| | E) | Arnold Toynbee. |
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In the years after World War I, the idea of progress |
| | A) | gave a sense of hope in the midst of human suffering. |
| | B) | remained the foundation of Asian thought. |
| | C) | became even more popular among liberal Christian thinkers. |
| | D) | was bolstered by the growing popularity of Confucian thought. |
| | E) | was roundly attacked. |
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The notion that space and time are relative to the person measuring them was first articulated in |
| | A) | Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. |
| | B) | Kepler's three principles of interplanetary movement. |
| | C) | The Decline of the West. |
| | D) | Einstein's theory of relativity. |
| | E) | Newton's theory of gravity. |
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The author of The Decline of the West was |
| | A) | John Maynard Keynes. |
| | B) | Gertrude Stein. |
| | C) | Ernest Hemingway. |
| | D) | Karl Barth. |
| | E) | Oswald Spengler. |
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The father of psychoanalysis was |
| | A) | Werner Heisenberg. |
| | B) | Oswald Spengler. |
| | C) | Niokolai Berdiaev. |
| | D) | Sigmund Freud. |
| | E) | Albert Einstein. |
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According to Freud the root of neurotic behavior was |
| | A) | a conflict between conscious and unconscious mental processes. |
| | B) | summed up in the term uncertainty "principle." |
| | C) | the traumatic bloodshed of World War I. |
| | D) | the hostility that young boys feel toward their mothers. |
| | E) | an easily explainable chemical reaction. |
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The spread of photography |
| | A) | led many painters to choose the camera as their instrument of expression. |
| | B) | resulted in a lack of creative artistic expression because of general pessimism. |
| | C) | led to a new artistic genre that tried to produce paintings that were more accurate than the camera. |
| | D) | led many painters to take an almost Luddite-like glee in smashing cameras. |
| | E) | led many painters to believe that the purpose of painting was not to mirror reality but to create it. |
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Which of the following was not one of the new artistic movements of the twentieth century? |
| | A) | expressionism |
| | B) | cubism |
| | C) | Dadaism |
| | D) | impressionism |
| | E) | surrealism |
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One of the biggest results of the artistic experimentation of the 1920s and 1930s was that |
| | A) | artists learned to adhere to accepted public definitions of reality. |
| | B) | photography was no longer considered a legitimate art form. |
| | C) | generally accepted standards that distinguished between "good" and "bad" art disappeared. |
| | D) | impressionism was recognized as the single best art form. |
| | E) | a set of criteria was established that allowed art students to distinguish between "good" and "bad" art. |
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The glut of natural rubber in the 1920s adversely affected the economy of |
| | A) | the U.S. |
| | B) | Germany. |
| | C) | South Africa. |
| | D) | Chile. |
| | E) | Malaysia. |
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Karl Barth embraced the liberal Christian theology of progress following World War I. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Freud's ideas shaped the psychiatric profession, but had little impact on other endeavors. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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According to Werner Heisenberger's uncertainty principle, the position and velocity of a subatomic particle cannot be simultaneously specified. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Asian, Pacific, and African art influenced early twentieth-century Western art. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The economic well being of Europe in the 1920s ultimately depended upon subsidies from the USSR. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The decline in the American economy in the early 1930s |
| | A) | had little lasting impact. |
| | B) | was more psychological than real. |
| | C) | was modest. |
| | D) | ended with the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. |
| | E) | created a disastrous ripple effect across the globe. |
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A troubling economic problem in the 1920s was the depressed state of agriculture caused by |
| | A) | virulent new strains of disease. |
| | B) | the success of several new communist regimes. |
| | C) | overproduction and falling prices. |
| | D) | the collapse of the cotton market in the southern United States. |
| | E) | dangerous underproduction. |
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During the Great Depression, most nations |
| | A) | cooperated globally to fight the problem on a scale never seen before. |
| | B) | dramatically reduced tariffs in an effort to facilitate international trade. |
| | C) | expanded the money supply and undertook public works to provide jobs. |
| | D) | practiced economic nationalism. |
| | E) | pushed for an expansion of trade. |
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In response to the Great Depression, economist John Maynard Keynes |
| | A) | proposed that the government should do nothing and wait out the economic hard times. |
| | B) | was a big supporter of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. |
| | C) | felt that the government should tighten the money supply. |
| | D) | wrote that capitalism had failed and that it was time for the United States to experiment with communism. |
| | E) | urged the government to expand the money supply and undertake public works to provide jobs. |
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Which of the following was not one of the chief actions of Roosevelt's New Deal? |
| | A) | tightening the money supply |
| | B) | creating jobs and establishing farm subsidies |
| | C) | providing social security in old age |
| | D) | guaranteeing minimum wages |
| | E) | enacting legislation to prevent the collapse of the banking system |
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The Russian Civil War that broke out after the revolution was between |
| | A) | Utopian socialists and Trotskyites. |
| | B) | Reds and Whites. |
| | C) | Leninists and Stalinists. |
| | D) | Nicholas II's Imperial Army and Lenin's Revolutionary Army. |
| | E) | eastern and western factions. |
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Lenin's New Economic Policy of 1921 |
| | A) | pushed the peasants onto large state-run collectives. |
| | B) | stripped all land ownership away from the peasants. |
| | C) | called for a trading alliance with Communist China. |
| | D) | implemented free market reforms. |
| | E) | initiated the First Five-Year Plan. |
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The First Five-Year Plan was initiated by |
| | A) | Lenin. |
| | B) | Mussolini. |
| | C) | Stalin. |
| | D) | Hitler. |
| | E) | Trotsky. |
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The Nuremberg Laws |
| | A) | outlawed democratic parties. |
| | B) | made Hitler president of Germany. |
| | C) | deprived Jews of their citizenship. |
| | D) | introduced social security for ethically pure Germans. |
| | E) | all of the above |
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The Kristallnacht was |
| | A) | a new artistic movement that flourished after World War I. |
| | B) | a Nazi-arranged attack on thousands of Jewish stores, synagogues, and people. |
| | C) | Hitler's political treatise that expressed his main ideas. |
| | D) | the Russian term for the destructive civil war that followed the revolution. |
| | E) | a German term for the sense of disillusionment that World War. |
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff lowered tariff rates in 1937 and helped the world recover form the Great Depression. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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During the Great Depression, the French physician Charles Richet argued that removing women from unemployment would ease male unemployment. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The U.S., Britain, France, and Japan, supported the whites during the Russian civil war.. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Stalin's First Five-Year Plan was a colossal failure. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Hitler was able to take power in part because the economic crisis of the Great Depression sapped faith in the democratic system. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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