CH 28

Question 1

Between 1935 and 1940, union membership in the United States
A) doubled. D) fell by 40 percent.
B) tripled. E) increased by 50 percent.
C) fell by 25 percent.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

To resolve the economic problems of Germany and international tensions in Europe, the
U.S. developed the
A) Agricultural Adjustment Act. D) New Deal.
B) Dawes Plan. E) Locarno Pact.
C) League of Nations.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

The parliamentary governments of Germany in the mid- to late 1920s were dominated
by
A) Social Democrats. D) conservative aristocrats.
B) right-wing nationalists. E) Christian Democrats.
C) moderate businessmen.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Because France was ________________, the Great Depression hit France late.
A) well integrated into the world economy
B) highly industrialized
C) less industrialized, but well integrated into the world economy
D) the beneficiary of war reparations from Germany
E) less industrialized and more isolated from the world economy

Answer 4

E

Question 5

The “middle way” refers to the
A) Scandinavian response to the Great Depression.
B) design philosophy of the Bauhaus.
C) reform of German reparations payments.
D) new literary efforts of writers such as Joyce and Faulkner.
E) British Liberal Party.

Answer 5

A

Question 6

The composer Arnold Schönberg is known for
A) his creation of “twelve-tone” music that abandoned traditional harmony and
tonality.
B) his composition of nationalistic German operas.
C) his symphonies composed for broadcast to popular audiences on the German
Deutsche Welle radio network.
D) his use of pulsing dissonant rhythms in the ballet Rites of Spring.
E) his composition of musical background for the first “talkies.”

Answer 6

A

Question 7

At its height during the Great Depression, unemployment in the United States reached
A) 10 percent. D) 50 percent.
B) 25 percent. E) 75 percent.
C) 33 percent.

Answer 7

C

Question 8

According to the text, Britain was more ready to conciliate Germany than France
following the Versailles peace settlement because
A) the British and Germans shared a common cultural heritage.
B) the British feared the growth of French military power.
C) the British wanted a strong Germany as a bulwark against Bolshevism.
D) the British hoped to purchase new ships for their battle fleet in Germany.
E) the British had depended heavily on the German market for their exports before
World War I.

Answer 8

E

Question 9

All of the following artistic styles emerged in the Age of Anxiety except
A) surrealism. D) impressionism.
B) cubism. E) extreme expressionism.
C) dadaism.

Answer 9

D

Question 10

The British political party that emerged during the 1920s as the champion of the
working class and the main opposition to the Conservative party was the
A) Liberal party. D) Communist party.
B) Labour party. E) Christian Democratic party.
C) Social Democratic party.

Answer 10

B

Question 11

All of the following statements about the Bauhaus movement are accurate except that it
A) combined fine and applied arts.
B) stressed functional design.
C) combined expressionism and cubism to form surrealism.
D) was led by Walter Gropius.
E) had a great and continuing impact.

Answer 11

C

Question 12

Authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and William Faulkner wrote about
A) societal problems.
B) utopian escapist themes.
C) romantic themes of love and personal fulfillment.
D) the complexity and irrationality of the human mind.
E) Christian salvation.

Answer 12

D

Question 13

One of the earliest full-length feature films produced in the United States was
A) The Great Train Robbery. D) What the Butler Saw.
B) Gone with the Wind. E) Metropolitan.
C) Birth of a Nation.

Answer 13

C

Question 14

The logical empiricism espoused by Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that
A) philosophy is only the logical clarification of thoughts.
B) individuals must become “engaged” in modern life.
C) one must search for moral values and then act on those values.
D) the concept of God could be adapted to fit within the Einsteinian universe.
E) angst zeit was the fundamental reality of the modern age.

Answer 14

A

Question 15

Challenges to the centrality of rational thought to understand the human condition came
from all of the following philosophers except
A) Ludwig Wittgenstein. D) Friedrich Nietzsche.
B) Henri Bergson. E) Søren Kierkegaard.
C) Georges Sorel.

Answer 15

A

Question 16

JeanPaul Sartre stressed
A) the role of emotion in understanding reality.
B) the remoteness of God.
C) the role of religion in human behavior.
D) that philosophy is only the study of language.
E) that individuals must give meaning to life through actions.

Answer 16

E

Question 17

Friedrich Nietzsche maintained all of the following except that
A) religious belief provided stability in an absurd world.
B) conventional morality was suffocating self-realization and excellence.
C) rationality had been overemphasized.
D) a few superior beings could rise above the masses to become heroes.
E) Christianity was a “slave morality.”

Answer 17

A

Question 18

The Christian revival after World War I depended heavily on which of the following
earlier philosophers and theologians?
A) Friedrich Nietzsche. D) Søren Kierkegaard.
B) Gabriel Marcel. E) Ignatius Loyola.
C) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Answer 18

D

Question 19

Albert Einstein’s greatest contribution to the destruction of the Newtonian universe was
his
A) discovery of quanta.
B) principle of uncertainty.
C) discovery of the radioactive properties of radium.
D) theory of special relativity.
E) deconstruction of atomic theory.

Answer 19

D

Question 20

In The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler argued that
A) rampant homosexuality was destroying Western culture.
B) the West would soon be conquered by “the yellow race.”
C) decolonization was a moral imperative for Europe.
D) traditional Christian morality was weakening the West.
E) only socialism could save the West.

Answer 20

B

Question 21

The first major public broadcasts of special events by radio were made in
A) 1938. B) 1933. C) 1920. D) 1912. E) 1901.

Answer 21

C

Question 22

The British Broadcasting Corporation is representative of
A) a middle path between private networks in the U.S. and direct control on the
continent.
B) the role of private corporations in the development of radio entertainment.
C) propaganda value of radio broadcasts.
D) Britain’s direct control of the airwaves.
E) the failure of publicly owned radio to reach the masses.

Answer 22

A

Question 23

With Russia hostile and communist, France turned to a defensive alliance with
A) the United States. D) the “little Entente.”
B) Italy and Austria. E) Spain.
C) the Soviet Union.

Answer 23

D

Question 24

With the U.S. failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty, many French leaders placed their
hopes for future security on
A) strict implementation of the treaty. D) a closer relationship with Germany.
B) the alliance with Great Britain. E) Bolshevik pressure on Germany.
C) the League of Nations.

Answer 24

A

Question 25

When Germany refused to make its second reparations payment, France and Belgium
A) declared war.
B) established a naval blockade of German ports.
C) appealed to the League of Nations.
D) declared the Versailles Treaty null and void.
E) occupied the Ruhr district.

Answer 25

E

Question 26

German government printing of money to pay unemployment benefits to workers
striking in the Ruhr against the Franco-Belgian occupation of 1923 led to
A) hyperinflation.
B) French withdrawal from the Ruhr.
C) a rise in the Ruhr workers’ standard of living.
D) the crash of the U.S. stock market.
E) buying up of German currency by French speculators.

Answer 26

A

Question 27

The slide into depression from 1929 to 1933 is best explained by the lack of leadership
in the international economy and
A) poor national economic policy in Britain.
B) poor national economic policy in Germany.
C) poor national economic policy in the United States.
D) poor national economic policy in almost every country.
E) poor national economic policy in the Soviet Union.

Answer 27

D

Question 28

In the 1920s support for Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist party
A) was strongest among wealthy businessmen and aristocrats.
B) was broad throughout the German population.
C) was stronger than that for any political party other than the Social Democrats.
D) declined until the party had no seats in the Reichstag.
E) was weak and confined to a few anti-Semites, ultranationalists, and angry
veterans.

Answer 28

E

Question 29

Buying stocks “on margin” refers to the practice of
A) buying stocks and selling them as soon as any gain is realized.
B) buying stocks in high-risk businesses.
C) buying stocks with loans secured against high-risk bonds.
D) buying stocks with loans from stockbrokers.
E) buying stocks with retirement funds.

Answer 29

D

Question 30

According to the text, the American stock market crash of October 1929 was primarily
the result of
A) nationalist economic policies in Europe.
B) too much overseas investment.
C) an imbalance between real investment and speculation.
D) the government’s Keynesian economic policies.
E) failure of Germany to keep up reparations payments.

Answer 30

C

Question 31

President Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration attempted to
A) plan and control the U.S. economy.
B) solve the problem of unemployment.
C) establish a social welfare system.
D) nationalize banks, railroads, and heavy industry.
E) set up a comprehensive program of wage and price controls for the U.S. economy.

Answer 31

A

Question 32

The Swedish response to the Depression involved
A) increasing state spending on public works projects and increasing social welfare
benefits.
B) increasing military spending.
C) balancing the government budget by cutting government programs.
D) erecting trade barriers and putting the currency on the gold standard.
E) taking out loans from American banks.

Answer 32

A

Question 33

The most fundamental commitment of the New Deal was to
A) reform the capitalist system.
B) concentrate political power in the federal government.
C) resuscitate free trade economics and balanced budgets as soon as possible.
D) use the federal government to provide for the welfare of all Americans.
E) reduce the United States’ international trade deficit.

Answer 33

A

Question 34

According to the text, the Great Depression did not hit Britain as hard as the United
States or Germany in part because
A) Britain had a tradition of deficit spending by the government.
B) the British government followed the recommendations of economist John
Maynard Keynes.
C) the British economy gradually reoriented away from international markets and
toward production of consumer goods for the domestic market.
D) the United States provided Britain with substantial economic assistance.
E) British colonies served as a constant market for British goods.

Answer 34

C

Question 35

The Popular Front was formed in response to
A) the occupation of the Ruhr.
B) U.S. isolationism.
C) the threat of Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
D) the growth of communism.
E) the growth of fascism

Answer 35

E

Question 36

Which of the following events occurred first?
A) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr.
B) Kellogg-Briand pact signed.
C) Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president.
D) Popular Front is formed in France.
E) Germany joins League of Nations.

Answer 36

A

Question 37

Which of the following events occurred last?
A) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr.
B) Kellogg-Briand pact signed.
C) Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president.
D) Popular Front is formed in France.
E) Germany joins League of Nations.

Answer 37

D

Question 38

Georges Sorel saw Marxian socialism as
A) the science of history. D) a dark and sinister fantasy.
B) an inspiring, but unprovable religion. E) the apex of human reason.
C) the enemy of human freedom.

Answer 38

B

Question 39

For ____________, the basic fact about human beings was that they are imperfect.
A) Georges Sorel D) Karl Barth
B) Max Planck E) Jean-Paul Sartre
C) Ludwig Wittgenstein

Answer 39

D

Question 40

According to Freud, ingrained moral values, the ____________, specify what a person
should do.
A) superego B) ego C) id D) sex drive E) irrational mind

Answer 40

A

Question 41

Ulysses is an example of
A) realism.
B) expressionism.
C) naturalism.
D) post-modernism.
E) the stream-of-consciousness technique.

Answer 41

E

Question 42

Ulysses is an example of
A) realism.
B) expressionism.
C) naturalism.
D) post-modernism.
E) the stream-of-consciousness technique.

Answer 42

C