Unit 7 Flashcards
Which of the following best characterizes artistic movements in late-nineteenth-century Europe?
An increased emphasis on personal expression
Which of the following was an immediate result of the Austro-Prussian War (1866)?
Prussia dominated the German unification movement.
The constitution that Otto von Bismarck created for the united German Empire included
universal male suffrage for parliament
On which of the following did Cavour and Garibaldi agree?
Italy should be independent of foreign control.
When Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, he used the phrase “origin of species” to mean which of the following?
The transmutation of any species into another over time
Which of the following statements best describes Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution?
New species emerge after gradually accumulating new modifications.
The Dreyfus Affair in late nineteenth-century France resulted in which of the following?
The deepening of political divisions
Which of the following was a result of Einstein’s publication of the special theory of relativity in 1905 ?
Basic assumptions of classical physics about space and time had to be revised.
Which of the following is one of Sigmund Freud’s most significant contributions to twentieth-century thought?
Unconscious psychological energy is sexual energy.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the balance of power in Europe was greatly changed by
the unifications of Germany and of Italy
A major economic problem in late-nineteenth-century Europe that contributed to European imperialist expansion was
overproduction of manufactured goods
After unification in the late nineteenth century, the new state of Italy faced all of the following EXCEPT
a labor shortage
Which of the following is most closely associated with Friedrich Nietzsche?
The rejection of bourgeois morality
The Treaty of Berlin in 1878 reflected general European agreement on which of the following?
Boundaries and spheres of influence in the Balkans
Of the following, nineteenth-century European women were relatively more numerous and made the most influential contributions as
popular novelists and writers
