1.The end of serfdom in Russia would not come until 1861, and the end of slavery in the Ottoman Empire not until ________.
1890
1888
1865
1914
3.The emergence of “notable” and “valley lords” in the Ottoman Empire marked the emergence of a pattern of _________ during the 1700s.
Economic expansion
Political decentralization
Political and economic reform
Strong imperial centralization
4.After the end of the “new order,” a new sultan came to power and eventually put an end to the __________________ in 1826..
Revolt of religious scholars
Civil war in Egypt
Kurdish Rebellion
Janissary Corps
5.The Ottoman vassal in Egypt, Muhammad Ali, rose in rebellion and would have conquered ____________ had European forces not intervened.
Syria
Constantinople
Algiers
Jerusalem
6.In 1839, the Ottoman government issued a series of reform edicts that are collectively known as the Tanzimat or “______”.
Openness
Young Turks
Reorganizations
New Sciences
7.As a result of its loss in the Crimean War of __________, Russia was forced to recognize the Ottoman Empire's right to full integrity.
1853-1856
1841-1844
1861-1865
1846-1848
8.Seven years after the Congress of Berlin in 1878, the sultan was forced to recognize the independence of _____.
Cyprus
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Greece
Bulgaria
9.Between 1894 and 1896, the Ottoman sultan armed Kurdish tribal units, which massacred thousands of _______ villagers.
Ethnic Turkish
Armenian
Sunni
Ethnic Greek
10.In 1912, ______, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece collaborated in the First Balkan War, forcing Ottoman forces to retreat back to Constantinople.
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Great Britain
Serbia
12.In the 1700s, a a Pashtu tribal federation from _______ conquered Iran and ended Safavid rule.
Afghanistan
India
Syria
Persia
13.In a reform of the educational system in 1782, _________ made education, from urban primary schools to high schools, free and mostly staffed with clergy.
Joseph II
Nicholas I
Catherine II the Great
Alexander I Pugachev
14.The Decembrist Revolt was led by a small number of _________ in 1825, but it was quickly suppressed, and its leaders were hanged.
Enraged peasants
Embittered Cossacks
Romanov pretenders to the throne
Military officers who wanted reforms
15.What convinced Alexander II that reforms were necessary for the Russian Empire?
Russia’s defeat in the Crimean War.
Russia’s loss of territory to the Ottomans.
Russia’s defeat at Port Arthur.
Russia’s loss to Napoleon Bonaparte.
16.In the 1870s, conservative intellectuals broadened the conceptualization of Russian nationality into an ideology of Pan-__________.
Germanism
Slavism
Orthodoxy
Serfdom
17.The assassination of ________ in 1881 by a leftist terrorist organization impatient for further reforms triggered a repressive backlash from the next tsar.
Nicholas II
Nicholas I
Alexander II
Alexander III
19.Following the Revolution of 1905, Nicholas II repudiated the concessions granted in the October Manifesto, especially:
A return to serfdom
An end to the war with Japan
An independent Duma
A pledge to abdicate within five years
21.See Image 25.4. The city of Isfahan below was the capital of the Shiite ________ state.
Ottoman
Qajar
Egyptian
Safavid
1.As a result of the Second Balkan War of 1913, the Ottoman Empire was almost entirely driven out of:
The Middle East
North Africa.
Europe.
Asia.
2.During an Ottoman siege of Habsburg Vienna in 1683, a __________ relief army allied with the Habsburgs arrived just in time to drive out the besieging forces.
Russian
Polish
French
Hungarian
1.In the late summer of 1845, Mary Paul, age 15, went to work in a spinning room in the booming mill town of Lowell, _______.
Vermont.
Great Britain.
Massachusetts.
North Carolina.
2.In 1900 Sigmund Freud published his highly influential book on The Interpretation of _______, which developed his ideas of the subconscious mind.
Hysteria.
The Id.
Case Histories.
Dreams.
4.What is Austrian Siegfried Marcus credited to having invented in 1874?
The combustion-engine automobile.
The motor-powered airplane.
The naval torpedo.
The wireless receiver.
5.Ferdinand von Zeppelin's dirigible airship was kept aloft by the incorporation of bags filled with _________ gas and powered by two 16-horsepower engines.
Nitrogen.
Helium.
Hydrogen.
Petroleum.
7.One social activist ___________, the child of a wealthy mill owner, drew attention to the abysmal conditions in factories.
Karl Marx
Emmeline Pankhurst
Friedrich Engels
William Blake
9.An English _________ League was established for organizing sporting activities in 1888.
Basketball.
Leisure.
Football
Hockey.
10.By 1903, __________ had enhanced the power and range of his device enough to send the first transatlantic radio message.
Alexander Graham Bell.
James Clerk Maxwell.
Nikola Tesla.
Guglielmo Marconi.
11.Who destroyed the Newtonian notion of a certain, absolute, and mechanistic universe?
Antoine Becquerel
Hendrik Lorentz
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
13.The first fully automatic __________ was conceived by Hiram Maxim, an American inventor.
Steam engine.
Machine gun.
Electric induction engine.
Recoil cylinder device.
14.The Communist Manifesto declared, “The _________ have nothing to lose but their chains.”
Proletarians.
Bourgeoisie.
Slaves.
Germans.
16.In ship construction, what material improved their speed, size, and strength?
Bronze
Iron
Nickel
Steel
17.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their pamphlet entitled The Communist Manifesto in the city of ____________.
Frankfurt.
Trier.
Prague.
London.
18.During the latter part of the nineteenth century, women held about ___________ of the industrial jobs.
One-half
Two-thirds
One-fifth
One-third
19.The invention of _______ by the Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Bernhard Nobel aided in the construction of the Panama Canal (1914).
Vulcanized rubber.
Rapid-fire artillery weapons.
World Peace.
Dynamite.
20.In 1911 the Austrian composer and theoretician Arnold Schoenberg created a new, modern style of musical composition called:
Twelve tone music.
Jazz
Big band
Rhythm and blues
21.See Map 26.3. Which of the following countries had the lowest population growth between 1700 and 1900?
Brazil
Persia
Mexico
Australia
2.Over the course of the 19th century population in the industrialized nations of Europe:
Plummeted when environmental pollution began to affect air conditions and public health.
Grew in Britain but declined in Germany because of its unstable political situation
Shifted from rural to urbanized settings.
Declined due to industrialized production of birth control devices.
1.Karl Marx replaced Hegel's dialectical schema with one of his own, based on the concept of economic class struggle, or dialectical _________.
Structuralism.
Socialism.
Materialism.
Idealism.
5.The invention of the flying shuttle (1733), water frame (1769), and spinning mule (1779):
Depended on the preparatory work of an increased number of handicraftsmen.
Increased the speed and quality of spinning and weaving.
Improved the threshing of grain, by harnessing the power of mules in a cycle.
Led to the full-scale machine production of textiles.
6.What did Samuel Slater build in Rhode Island in 1793?
The first water-powered textile factory in America.
The first railroad line in the United States.
The first steam-powered canning factory in America.
The first telephone system in the United States.
8.Among the components that Siegfried Marcus designed for his combustion-engine automobile were all of the following except:
A braking system.
A carburetor.
A turn signals.
A clutch.