Freshman Challenge Preliminary 2024

Question 1

Which of the following IS NOT a theme of Renaissance Art?

Accepted Answer

Two dimensional figures, lacking perspective and nonsecular.

Question 2

Enlightenment thinker argued that a strong monarch could maintain the peace and protect peoples’ safety and security.

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hobbes

Question 3

Who said , “…the unexamined life is not worth living…“?

Accepted Answer

Socrates

Question 4

His adventures remain largely unknown until the 19th....

Accepted Answer

Ibn Butta

Question 5

Which best describes much of the world in the century and a half leading up to the First World War?

Accepted Answer

Industrialization, liberal revolutions, and democratic revolutions.

Question 6

How was industrialization different than other prior technological revolutions?

Accepted Answer

It affected a lot of people very quickly.

Question 7

Karal Marx is to Captialism as Adam Smith is to Communism

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

What natural resources gave Britain an advantage in the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Coal

Question 9

How have we structured societies around us including state and religion? Refers to which frame:

Accepted Answer

Communities

Question 10

Which of the following is in the correct order?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment, American Rev. French Rev. Hatian Rev.

Question 11

Natural Rights according to John Locke include:

Accepted Answer

All of them

Question 12

Nationalism is having loyality and pride to your home country

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Which Revolution concerned human rights and equality more than the others?

Accepted Answer

The Haitian Revolution

Question 14

A form of government where citizens are elect representatives to vote on laws is called a:

Accepted Answer

Republic

Question 15

What was the leading cause of the French Revolution?

Accepted Answer

the demand for political equality among the Estates

Question 16

A Budgetary Imbalance is when a government spends more money than it takes in

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

People voting directly on an issue is:

Accepted Answer

Direct Democracy

Question 18

What are the three frames in the World History course?

Accepted Answer

Communities, production and distribution, and networks

Question 19

How might the First World War have happened by accident?

Accepted Answer

The entangling alliances system made a larger conflict out of a small one.

Question 20

In 1633 CE, authorities condemned Galileo for publishing theories about astronomy that contradicted whose views?

Accepted Answer

Aristotle

Question 21

Created first known Code of Laws

Accepted Answer

Babylonians

Question 22

One of the Five Pillars says you should take a pilgrimage to Medina

Accepted Answer

False

Question 23

How did industrial capitalism contribute to the growth of child labor?

Accepted Answer

Factories were so cramped inside, they needed physically smaller workers.

Question 24

Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden are examples of

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Liberals

Question 25

Intuition, Logic, Authority, and Evidence are part of which historical thinking skill?

Accepted Answer

Claims Testing

Question 26

Government run by a King or Queen:

Accepted Answer

Monarchy

Question 27

"The government should make health care avaaible to people who can't afford it"

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Liberal

Question 28

Pax Romana is best defined as:

Accepted Answer

A period of peace and prosperity that lasted for 200 years

Question 29

A person, like the Medici, who supported the arts, usually with money.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Women's Right to vote was secured with the 13th Amendment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 31

In Europe there was an interest in humanist ideas about classical learning called:

Accepted Answer

The Renaissance

Question 32

Niccolo Machiavelli would agree with which of the following statements?

Accepted Answer

Leaders should be ruthless when necessary and generous when possible

Question 33

The conflict between Soviet Union & the United States following World War II

Accepted Answer

The Cold War

Question 34

What was the leading cause for the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

the imposition of taxes without consent

Question 35

What term do historians use to describe moving between different events, eras, and time and space?

Accepted Answer

Scale Switching

Question 36

How was the social hierarchy organized under Hinduism?

Accepted Answer

The caste system distinguished groups based on social roles.

Question 37

Which of the following is considered the most important development of Era 3

Accepted Answer

Writing

Question 38

Principle stating that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a crime.

Accepted Answer

Habeas Corpus

Question 39

Which of the following resulted from encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

The Native American population declined.

Question 40

A policy by which a country has complete control over the way of life of another country is known as:

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 41

The world’s first democratic constitution was adopted by:

Accepted Answer

Athens

Question 42

Business will create jobs and opportunities better than the government.

Accepted Answer

Conservative

Question 43

Which of the following is considered the most important development of Era 2

Accepted Answer

Collective Learning

Question 44

A Mother Country establishes a colony for it&#x27;s financial support.

Accepted Answer

Merchantalism

Question 45

Which of the following best describes an outcome of the Columbian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

Increased global connection

Question 46

Laissez faire means

Accepted Answer

Government has no control over the market place

Question 47

The goods exchanged along the Silk Road in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries were mostly of what type?

Accepted Answer

Luxury items

Question 48

The Proletariat most likely belong to which part of the political spectrum?

Accepted Answer

Radical

Question 49

Which response shows these four historical events in chronological order?

Accepted Answer

Middle Ages, Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution

Question 50

Inflation is the rapid decress in prices

Accepted Answer

False

Freshman Challenge Preliminary 2024

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Freshman Challenge Preliminary 2024

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