Chapter+24

1. Igor Stravinsky... a. discovered "quanta" energy b. was the composer of "Rite of Spring" c. was an abstract expressionist who led the flight from "visual reality" d. was the hunchbacked assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein e. was a leading supporter of Social Darwinism

2. Darwin's theory of the struggle for survival inspired... a. Nietzche's call for a Superman b. Zola's literary Naturalism c. Freud's theory of the Unconsious d. the invention of the game show "Survivor" e. Herzl's called for a Jewish state

3. Friederich Niezche believed... a. in the power of love b. that Christianity was mostly at fault for a weak Western Society c. in a new way of thinking called "revolutionary socialism" d. that human behavior was strongly determined by the unconscious e. that Marxism was the root of all Western evil

4. Which of these is wrong? a. Naturalists accepted the material world as real and felt that literature should be realistic. b. Fyodo Dostoevsky wrote "War and Peace". c. Arthur Rimbaud was one of Symbolism's leading practitioners in France. d. Vincent van Gogh was an important component in Impressionism. e. The nationalistic spirit became irrevocably important in Russia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

5. Which woman threw herself under a horse? a. Emmeline Pankhurst b. Catherine the Great c. Millicent Fawcett d. Florence Nightingale e. Emily Davison

6. When women really began fighting for rights, in which two professions did they most employ? a. Teaching and painting b. Nursing and dressmaking c. Teaching and nursing d. Professional wrestling and underwater basket weaving e. Dressmaking and jockeying

7. Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree? a. Elizabeth Blackwell b. Maria Montessori c. Hillary Clinton d. Bertha von Suttner e. Mary Cassat

8. Who was Alfred Dreyfus? a. He was a Jew wrongfully accused and condemned of selling army secrets. b. He was a Jew accused of selling army secrets, but was not condemned. c. He was a Jew who sold army secrets. d. He was an evil and vindictive man who consulted with dark spirits for the death of Tsar Nicholas II and had a pet albino bat. e. He was a popular French officer in the military who wrote a poem called "The White Man's Burdon".

9. Which came first? a. Battle of Omdurman in Sudan b. Leopold of Belgium recieves Congo as his own private posession c. Boer War d. French protectorate over Morocco e. French conquest of Algeria

10. When did Japan annex Korea? a. 1903 b. It didn't. c. 1896 d. 1878 e. 1910

11. *BONUS QUESTION* How do you spell the name of that funny-sounding African country? a. Jabooty b. Djabooty c. Djhbuti d. Jbhuti e. Djbuhti f. Djibouti g. Djubouti

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