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1
What is the best description of this painting?
impressionist
realists
romantic
pointillist
2
Who was the nineteenth century thinker who developed positivism?
Sigmund Freud
Beatrice Webb
August Comte
Thomas Huxley
3
The "May Laws" were part of Bismarck's fight against the Catholic Church called what?
Burgenfrieden
Mein Kampf
blitzkrieg
Kulturkampf
4
How did England handle the controversy over how education should be managed/
church schools were closed, public schools expanded
public school attendance was required
nothing had to be solved as religious schools did not exist
The 1902 Education Act funded religious and secular schools
5
Comte's big contribution to western thought was the application of positivism to
theology.
biology.
physical science.
the social sciences.
6
Ernst Mach, Henri Poincare, and Hans Vaihinger thought what about science?
It was a portrayal of truth.
It was only a description of scientists' perceptions.
It was exact.
It was a description of the real world.
7
Despite not wanting to get involved in colonization, Bismarck held what conference on Africa?
the Vienna Conference?
The Congress of Vienna
The London Conference
the Berlin Conference
8
Which part of the human personality is responsible for moral impulses, according to Freud?
the dreamscape
id
ego
superego
9
Who challenged all morality as merely conventional in his book
Beyond Good and Evil?
Charles Darwin
Carl Jung
Herbert Spencer
Friedrich Nietzsche
10
Which nineteenth century writer supposed that race determined destiny?
Arthur Gobineau
Houston Steward Chamberlain
Paul Lagarde
Sigmund Freud
11
Who wrote that the white race would be weakened by marriage with non-whites?
Paul Lagarde
Max Weber
Authur de Gobineau
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
12
What is the best description of this painting?
impressionist
realist
romantic
pointillist
13
Probably the most famous cubist painter was
Pablo Picasso
Sigmund Frued
Georges Braque
Carl Jung
14
What is the best description of this painting by George Braque?
impressionist
realist
cubist
pointillist
15
Who first described X Rays in a scholarly paper?
J.J. Thompson
Ernst Rutherford
Henri Becquerel
Wilhelm Roentgen
16
What is the id according to Freud?
the irrational, driving, animal instincts of man
the seat of the personality between id and superego
the external moral imperatives of the mind
the dreaming part of the mind
17
What event in France marked a revived Antisemitism in France?
the 1830 Revolution
the death of Marat
the failed Revolution of 1848
the Dreyfus Affair
18
What artistic movement was championed by the Bloomsbury Group, including Virginia Woolf?
post-impressionism
impressionism
realism
modernism
19
In an effort to compete with liberalism and communism Pope Leo XII issued what?
Unam Sanctum
Rerum Novarum
Asculta Filii
The Golden Bull
20
The ultra conservative Islamic movement that originated in the Arabian peninsula was called
the Wahabbi movement
the Mahdist movement
the Young Turks
the Salafist movement
21
Which of the following wanted to reform Islam to make it more compatible with modern science?
the Mahdists
the Salafi
the Ottomans
the Wahabbists
22
Who was responsible for the rise of Zionism, a form of Jewish nationalism?
Theodor Herzl
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Karl Leuger
Nathan Birnbaum
23
The foremost advocate of social Darwinism was which of the following men?
Herbert Spencer
William Paley
Thomas Huxley
Charles Darwin
24
Which composer became associated with antisemitism and Nazism?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard Wagner
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
J.S. Bach
25
Who set forth an uncertainty principle regarding the behavior of subatomic particles?
Werner Heisenberg
Max Planck
Albert Enstein
J.J. Thompson
26
Which of the following describes positivism as it applied to the social sciences?
nature is a mystery
nature can be explained by abstract ideas
nature can be explained by divine causes
nature can be explained by descriptions of observable fact
27
Charles Darwin believed that the differentiation of species could best be explained by what?
divine intervention
natural selection
the big bang theory
devolution
28
Who was the mayor of Vienna who influenced the development of popular Antisemitism?
Paul Lagarde
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Arthur Gobineau
Karl Leuger
29
What major doctrinal statement did Pius IX make about the papacy in 1869?
the Immaculate Conception
He pardoned Galileo.
the dogma of papal infallibility
the secular supremacy of the church
30
Who theorized that there was something called the Puritan work ethic?
Auguste Comte
Carl Jung
Max Weber
Karl Marx
31
Who discovered that uranium emitted radiation?
J.J. Thompson
Wilhelm Roentgen
Ernest Rutherford
Henri Becquerel
32
Which of the following men contented that the story of Jesus was actually mythology?
T.H. Huxley
Herbert Spencer
Charles Darwin
David Friedrich Strauss
33
Who was the author of
Ulysses
and
Finnegan's Wake
?
Marcel Proust
Gustave Flaubert
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
34
Which work by Henrik Ibsen can be read as a criticism of conventional middle class life?
A Doll's House
Androcles and the Lion
Arms and the Man
David Copperfield
35
Who wrote a book that suggested that the age of the earth was more than bible scholars said?
Charles Lyell
Herbert Spencer
William Paley
Charles Darwin
36
The messianic movement in Sudan that rejected Western influence was called what?
the Young Turks
the Mahdist movement
the Wahabbi movement
the Salafists
37
Which pope issued the
Syllabus of Errors
?
John XXIII
Pius IX
John Paul II
Leo XII
38
What was the major contribution of Albert Enstein to physics?
the discovery of the electron
special relativity
quantum theory
the uncertainty principle
39
What is the best description of this painting?
pointillist
romantic
impressionist
realist
40
The economist who was part of the Bloomsbury Group and who favored unconventional ideas was
Thomas Mann
John Maynard Keynes
Marcel Proust
David Ricardo
41
Who discovered the electron?
Wilhelm Roentgen
Henri Becquerel
J.J. Thompson
Ernest Rutherford
42
What trend was evident in French schools in the nineteenth century?
religious schools grew over time
secular schools gradually faded away
public schools were expanded and cleric teachers were banned
religious and public schools generally cooperated
43
How did Max Weber view Islam?
as an equal to Christianity
as an example for Europe
as a way to be critical of his own culture
as a religion and culture incapable of developing science
44
What would be the best description of this painting?
pointillist
romantic
impressionist
realist
45
This work by Gustave Flaubert is considered an early realist work that shocked society.
Arms and the Man
Oliver Twist
A Doll's House
Madam Bovary
46
Who popularized the idea that science augmented faith?
Charles Darwin
Charles Lyell
Herbert Spencer
William Paley
47
What best describes this painting?
post-impressionist
realist
impressionist
pointillist
48
H.G Wells and Jules Verne are both associated with which of the following?
Darwinism
the new psychology
the development of science fiction
positivism
49
Who rejected Freud's primacy of sexual drives and believed in collective memories?
Jung
Weber
Nietzsche
Sorel
50
Who said that Christianity glorified weakness rather than the strength required for life?
Herbert Spencer
Charles Lyell
Carl Jung
Friedrich Nietzsche
