#133001  All Quiet - Paul's friends and comrades in the war included men with whom he would have had little in common in civilian life (different social class, age, etc.).   
1
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133002  All Quiet - Which of the following symbolizes the older generation of the "Establishment" that misled and betrayed Paul and his peers?   
1
Kantorek   
Himmelstoss   
Tjaden   
Lieutenant Bertinck   
Obergruppenfuhrer Muller   

#133003  All Quiet - Remarque says, "To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier because he has fought for the right to walk proudly upon it."   
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133004  All Quiet -Paul pulls temporary duty guarding some prisoners for whom he develops some empathy.  They were   
4
Jews   
Frenchmen   
political dissidents   
Russians   
Americans   

#133005  All Quiet - Paul and his classmates were drafted into the German Army shortly after the war started.   
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133006  All Quiet - Which of the following characters is used to symbolize the petty tyrant and bully?    
4
Katczinksy   
Tjaden   
Lieutenant Bertinck   
Himmelstoss   
Muller   

#133007  All Quiet - The tragedy of Paul's death was especially poignant because it cut short what promised to be a rich, full and meaningful life.  He was full of hope and ambition for his life in the post-War world.  
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133008  All Quiet - "The fellows over there" refers to    
2
rear echelon soldiers   
Frenchmen   
Americans, most of whom were still in the U.S., but were starting to pour into the    Western Front in ever increasing numbers  
Germans serving on the Eastern Front   
Austrians   

#133009  Although All Quiet has had a great deal of literary influence, it was originally thought of by the author as a simple military adventure story.   
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133010  All Quiet - Which of the following is the oldest?    
1
Katczinsky   
Muller   
Paul   
Leer   
Kropp   

#133011  All Quiet - Something that helped Paul keep his sanity in the hell that was the Western Front were the warm memories of his home leave.   
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133012  All Quiet - In civilian life Katczinsky was a    
2
student   
cobbler   
teacher   
lawyer   
physician   

#133013  All Quiet - Poison gas is outlawed by international treaty so it has never been used in war.    
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133014  All Quiet - Erich Maria Remarque, the author of one of the greatest anti-war novels of all time   
3
served as a colonel in the Waffen SS during WW II   
retired to his family's ancestral home in the south of France   
became an American citizen who spent most of his time in Switzerland   
died shortly after the publication of his novel   
was incarcerated by the Nazis and spent WW II in a concentration camp   

#133015  All Quiet - WW I was a duel of machines:  the airplane and the tank, with almost no direct or hand-to-hand combat.  
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133016  All Quiet - Catholic hospitals were noted for their good food and good treatment compared to regular army hospitals.   
1
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133017  All Quiet - Queue    
3
is a famous botanical garden in London   
is an egg based French pastry   
is a line of persons queuing up as for a bus in England or for fish in Russia   
is a French bayonet   
is a rank in the French Army equivalent to our rank of corporal   

#133018  All Quiet - The "Dying Room" was a room where wounded soldiers were sent after the medical staff had given up hope that they would survive.   
1
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133019  All Quiet - Paul and Albert are put in a Catholic hospital because it was reserved for wounded soldiers of that faith.   
2
True   
False   
   
 e,  
   

#133020  All Quiet - The word from the study guide that is the name of a region of Northern Europe bordering on the North Sea is   
4
Brittany   
Lapland   
Normandy   
Friesland   
Spitzenberg   

#133021  All Quiet - The word from the study guide that means a PX or a temporary or mobile restaurant or a recreation room maintained by civilians for soldiers is   
2
lorry   
canteen   
commissary   
Kasern   
USO   

#133022  All Quiet - The word from the study guide that means wagon or truck is    
3
parapet   
canteen   
lorry   
deuce and a half   
Kubelwagen   

#133023  All Quiet - The word from the study guide that means a defensive wall or elevation, as of earth or stone, in a fortification is   
3
citadel   
fortress   
parapet   
perimenter   
fence   

#133024  All Quiet - The word from the study guide that means a subdivision of a company-size military unit normally consisting of 3 or 4 squads is   
1
platoon   
brigade   
regiment   
division   
battery   

#133025  All Quiet - This famous Greek philosopher (427-347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates.  His major works include The Republic and The Laws.   
1
Plato   
Sophocles   
Socrates   
Goethe   
Aristotle   

#133026  The Austrian monk                  did pioneering work in the field of heredity.    
3
Auguste Comte   
Carl Jung   
Gregor Mendel   
George Sorel   
Theodor Herzl   

#133027  The sociologist                     wrote The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.  In that work he argued that the Calvinists or Puritans worked hard, spent little and thus accumulated wealth and worldly success, less for material gain than to furnish themselves assurance that they stood among the elect of God. 
4
Henri Bergson   
Houston Stewart Chamberlain   
Thomas Hardy   
Max Weber   
Gustave Flaubert   

#133028  "Social Darwinism" is a concept    
5
which emphasizes the progress of human society through competition.   
which comes close to saying that might makes right.   
which could be used to justify avoidance of aiding the poor   
which could be used to justify imperialism.   
all of the above   

#133029  Auguste Comte is generally regarded as being the father of    
3
psychology.   
modern philosophy.   
sociology.   
socialism.   
modern history.   

#133030  The author of Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883) was    
4
Sigmund Freud   
James Joyce   
Virginia Woolf   
Friedrich Nietzsche   
Theodor Herzl   

#133031  Bismarck's Kulturkampf was directed against    
2
German liberals.   
the Catholic Church.   
the aristocracy.   
the Lutheran Church.   
the Kulturs.   

#133032  The policy of Kulturkampf was    
2
a success for Kaiser William I.   
the greatest blunder of Bismarck's career.   
a victory for the German state over organized Protestant churches.   
a disaster as a plan for patronizing artists.   
successful in curtailing the influence of the Junker class   

#133033  The idea that society should let strong men dominate and not protect the weak is most closely associated with   
2
Thomas Henry Huxley.   
Herbert Spencer.   
Jules Ferry.   
Matthew Arnold.   
Gregor Mendel.   

#133034        visions of a Jewish state would eventually lead to the creation of Israel in 1948.    
3
Sigmund Freud's   
Gregor Mendel's   
Theodor Herzl's   
Wilhelm Roentgen's   
Gustave Flaubert's   

#133035  Regarding religion and the church, the 19th century was    
2
a period of great security and acceptance.   
a difficult period of turmoil and attack by secular forces and science.   
a period of cooperation between religious and secular forces, but of decline on a popular    level.  
both a and c.   
   

#133036  Which idea would Henrik Ibsen have been least likely to share?    
2
middle-class morality was an illusion   
for the good of society, women must not be independent of men.   
respectability and justice often clash   
life is uglier than most men admit   
   

#133037  A novelist who portrayed the ugly conditions in the workers' quarters of industrial cities was    
2
Thomas Malthus   
Charles Dickens   
David Richardo   
Jeremy Benthan   
Zane Gray   

#133038  The person who wrote about the id, the ego, and the superego was    
5
Marie Curie   
Auguste Comte   
Albert Einstein   
Theodor Herzl   
Sigmund Freud   

#133039  The author of A Room of One's Own was    
3
Gustave Flaubert   
James Joyce   
Virginia Woolf   
Emile Zola   
Ellen Key   

#133040  Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), an English disciple of Auguste Compte, saw the human race as driven by a brutal but efficient law of struggle and competition--"the survival of the fittest."  This school of philosophy or world view is known as  
3
Socialism.   
Republicanism.   
Social Darwinism.   
Communism.   
Edwardian Grippe.   

#133041  Pope Pius IX became a controversial figure when he issued the    
1
Syllabus of Errors   
Rerum Novarum   
Against Heresy   
Science and God   
The Master Builder   

#133042        was an anti-Semitic Englishman who settled in Germany.  He wrote the Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, an influential work that argued for the primary role of race in history.  
4
Thomas Henry Huxley      
Wilhelm Roentgen   
Max Weber   
Houston Stewart Chamberlain   
Herbert Spencer   

#133043  John Maynard Keynes is best known     
4
for leading Great Britain as Prime Minister during the difficult post-WWI years   
for his great naval victory over the Germans at the Battle of Jutland (1916)    
as a silent screen matinee idol during the 1920s   
as an economist   
as a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1922-1939   

#133044  The major opponent of the tenets of social Darwinism who himself was a friend of Darwin was   
3
Gustave Flaubert.   
Herbert Spencer.   
Thomas Henry Huxley.   
Emile Zola.   
Friedrich Nietzche.   

#133045  The movement launched in 1896 to find a separate Jewish state in Palestine is called           .  It eventually led to the creation of Israel in 1948.   
4
The Coming Kingdom   
Socialism   
Fascism   
Zionism   
Israel First   

#133046  The Norwegian playwright,             (1828-1906) carried realism into dramatic presentation of domestic life.  He wrote A Doll's House (1879) and Ghosts (1881).   
3
Theodor Herzl   
Gustave Flaubert   
Henrik Ibsen   
Gregor Mendel   
August Comte   

#133047         (1856-1939) was the Viennese physician who founded modern psychoanalysis.  One of his most influential ideas concerned Oedipal tensions.   
1
Sigmund Freud   
Theodor Herzl   
Gustave Flaubert   
Carl Jung   
Gregor Mendel   

#133048         was an Irish writer who spent most of his life in England criticizing English society and modern capitalism.  He wrote Man and Superman (1903), Pygmalion (1912) and Androcles and the Lion (1913).  
3
Thomas Henry Huxley   
James Joyce   
George Bernard Shaw   
Charles Stewart Parnell   
Patrick O'Neil   

#133049         (1809-1892) was the most influential of the 19th century evolutionary thinkers.  He published On the Origin of Species by the Means of Natural Selection in 1859 and The Descent of Man (1871).  
5
Houston Stewart Chamberlain   
Emile Zola   
Carl Jung   
Albert Einstein   
Charles Darwin   

#133050  The Schlieffen Plan called for Germany to knock out    
3
England by marching through France.   
Russia by marching through Belgium.   
France by marching through Belgium.   
Belgium by marching through France.   
Austria by marching through Pretoria.   

#133051  Which of the following was not a factor in the strained German-British relations before World War I?   
5
The Boer War   
the Anglo-French Entente   
the German naval buildup   
economic rivalry and competition   
All of the above strained German-British relations.   

#133052  The Bismarckian system of alliances was meant to    
3
expand Germany's borders.   
help German allies expand their borders.   
restrain Russia and Austria-Hungary and isolate France.   
encourage relations with France.   
enable Bismarck to conquer Europe.   

#133053  The young Emperor William II of Germany made the fateful decision to reverse Bismarck's foreign policy by refusing to renew the Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and   
4
Austria.       
Britain.       
France.   
Russia.   
Italy.   

#133054  The President of the United States during the First World War was    
2
Franklin Roosevelt.   
Woodrow Wilson.     
Theodore Roosevelt.   
Harry Truman.   
Alfred E. Newman.   

#133055  The country at the Versailles Peace Conference most interested in punishing Germany was    
2
the U.S.A.     
France.        
Russia.   
Denmark.   
the Austrian Empire.   

#133056  As a result of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Russia    
4
acquired considerable territory.   
reentered the war on the German side.   
declared war on England and France   
lost much of its population and territory.   
invaded Turkey.   

#133057  In 1915 a German submarine sunk the                   (nationality) liner Lusitania.     
3
French    
American       
British   
Greek   
Italian   

#133058  The United States entered the First World War against Germany in the year    
2
1914.     
1917.     
1929.   
1939.   
1941.   

#133059  All of the following were controlled by the United States after 1898 except:    
1
Korea     
Puerto Rico    
Philippines   
Hawaii   
   

#133060  Jingoism was a new word coined for    
3
hypocrisy.   
sensationalistic press reporting.   
superpatriotism.   
aphorisms attributed to the noted philosopher Alfred W. Jingo.   
none of the above   

#133061  Under the new Bolshevik government,    
4
a civil war broke out between Trotsky and Lenin.   
a civil war broke out between the Bolsheviks and those who opposed their triumph.   
Czar Nicholas II and his family were murdered.   
both (b) and (c)   
the Russians fought the Germans until the armistice on November 11, 1918.   

#133062  In 1914, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated    
4
by the "Black Hand".   
with the planning and preparation of the Serbian army's general staff.   
with the knowledge and encouragement of the Russian czar.   
both (a) and (b)   
   

#133063  The issue of Belgian neutrality sent    
2
Spain to war.       
Britain to war.     
the Americans to war.   
the Russians to war.   
the Austrians to war.   

#133064  After the Battle of the Marne in 1914,    
3
the tide of war in the west turned to the French.   
the tide of war in the west turned to the Germans.   
the war became defensive, one of position rather than of movement.   
poison gas aided the German cause and broke the capacity of the English and French    armies to wage war.  
Paris fell to the German Army.   

#133065  Lenin and the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 because    
4
Russia was not able to carry on the war effort.   
Lenin's government needed time to impose its will on the Russian people.   
Lenin believed that communism would soon sweep through the warring states of Europe.   
all of the above   
   

#133066  Great Britain, France and Russia made up the              (name of alliance) during WWI.    
4
Triple Alliance   
Three Emperor's League   
Holy Alliance   
Triple Entente   
Axis Powers   

#133067  Next to Lenin, the most important leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and an organizer of Soviet support for the Revolution was    
2
Pushkin   
Trotsky   
Gorbachev   
Khrushchev   
Kerensky   

#133068  The name of the British Prime Minister who represented his country at the Versailles Peace Conference was    
3
John Maynard Keynes   
Winston Churchill   
David Lloyd George   
Stanley Baldwin   
   

#133069  The most influential critic of the Versailles Peace Treaty was the brilliant British economist              .  His book The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920) soundly denounced the treaty.  
1
John Maynard Keynes   
Erich von Falkenhayn   
Stanley Baldwin   
Thomas Masaryk   
Woodrow Wilson   

#133070  In 1918 the Germans launched a desperate offensive.  This brilliant but failed effort was masterminded by            , then Quartermaster General second in the command chain but the real leader of the German Army.  
5
Helmuth von Molkte   
Erich von Falkenhayn   
Paul von Hindenburg   
Ernst Roehm   
Erich Ludendorff   

#133071  Why did the Versailles settlement foster both resentment and discontent in numerous countries?   
4
Germany had been humiliated   
states in eastern Europe were discontented with border adjustments   
France believed that the provisions of the treaty were not being enforced    
all of the above   
   

#133072  Which of the following was not among the economic changes in Europe after World War I?    
1
France and Great Britain withdrew from the European economic order, refusing to trade    with Germany  
the United States became a major trade competitor to Europe   
Europeans exercised less dominance over the world economy   
Europeans combat deaths resulted in the loss of producers and consumers   
   

#133073  After World War I, international trade followed what new pattern?    
2
the United States became more dependent on European production   
Europeans exercised less dominance over the world economy   
European countries began to restrict their colonies from trading with other nations   
Japan retreated from Latin American and North American markets to concentrate upon    trade with Germany  
   

#133074  Stanley Baldwin    
2
was the first Labour Prime Minister, serving from 1897-1901.   
was a Conservative Prime Minister during the general strike of 1926.   
was the last Liberal Prime Minister, serving from 1939-1942.   
the leader of the Irish Party who won the long struggle for independence from England.   
was America's first ambassador to the League of Nations   

#133075  Sinn Fein was    
3
an Irish nationalist leader.   
an Irish independence movement dedicated to accommodation with British interests in    Ireland.  
an extreme Irish independence movement.   
the treaty between Britain and Ireland establishing Irish home rule.   
   

#133076  Which of the following contributed to the massive German inflation of the 1920s?    
4
the financing of World War I   
the allied reparations bill and continued postwar deficit   
the French invasion of the Ruhr and German response of passive economic resistance   
all of the above   
   

#133077  Within months of the revolution in Russia a new secret police known as             appeared.    
4
Sinn Fein      
The SA    
Comintern   
Cheka   
Gestapo   

#133078  In the late 1920s Hitler's uniformed thugs, the SA, were also called    
4
storm troopers.     
brown shirts.       
Sturmabteilung.   
all of the above   
   

#133079  The organizer and commander of the SA was    
3
Gustav Stresemann.       
Adolf Hitler.       
Ernst Roehm.   
Erich Ludendorff.   
Thomas Masaryk.   

#133080  The foreign minister of Germany throughout most of the 1920s was    
1
Gustav Stresemann.       
Raymond Poincare.        
Thomas Masaryk.   
Erich Ludendorff.   
Paul von Hindenburg.   

#133081  The Dawes Plan    
4
lowered German's annual reparation payments.   
provided for German expansion into the Sudetenland.   
provided for the French evacuation of the Ruhr.   
both a and c   
   

#133082  How might one characterize "fascism"?    
4
anti-democratic     
anti-Marxist        
anti-parliamentary   
all of the above   
   

#133083  Approximately             British soldiers perished in the First World War.    
2
12,000,000     
750,000        
23,000   
14,500,000   
9,000,000   

#133084  The General commanding the German Army in August 1914 was           .  He was relieved of his command in September 1914.   
1
Helmut von Molkte (the Younger)   
Erich von Falkenhayn   
Field Marshall Joffre   
Erich Ludendorf   
Paul von Hindenburg   

#133085  The "Little Entente" consisted of    
2
France and England   
Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Yugoslavia   
Hungary, Russia, and Poland   
Germany, Poland, and Hungary   
France, Germany, and Italy   

#133086  After World War I,    
4
France became the strongest military power on the Continent.   
France and Great Britain were troubled democracies.   
neither France nor Britain experienced a revolution or a shift to a totalitarian    government.  
all of the above   
   

#133087  French foreign policy after World War I was directed toward     
1
keeping Germany weak and establishing alliance with eastern states.   
accommodation with Germany and leniency in executing the terms of the Treaty of    Versailles.  
establishing a close connection with the struggling Soviet Union by offering financial    aid.  
strict control of their African colonies and gaining control of the former German    colonies.  
   

#133088  Which best characterizes the effect of massive inflation on Germany?    
1
It traumatized the middle class.   
It immediately led to a successful coup against the Weimar Republic.   
It enabled the country to pay off its entire reparation debt in worthless currency.   
It was a disaster that led to a successful Communist coup against the Weimar    government.  
   

#133089  The Nazis tailored their appeal to    
2
big international corporations including Ford, General Motors and U. S Steel which    provided the capital they needed for political advancement.  
the lower middle class which had been devastated by inflation.   
labor unions whose members had suffered low wages because of the nationalization of    industry.  
Marxist politicians whose aid they needed in coalition against the Weimar government.   
   

#133090  The foremost advocate of "Socialism in One Country" was    
4
Leon Trotsky.       
Adolf Hitler.       
Lenin.   
Stalin.   
Bukharin.   

#133091  Approximately 55,000 young Americans lost their lives in the Vietnam War.  How many young Europeans died at the Battle of Verdun?   
3
12,000   
45,000   
600,000   
21,000   
55,000   

#133092             means the papal government or the official residence of the Pope.    
2
the Rhineland   
the Vatican   
Monaco   
St. Paul's Cathedral   
Andorra   

#133093  The letters NEP stand for Lenin's    
3
National Environmental Program   
farm collectivization program (in Russian)   
New Economic Policy   
National Energy Program   
   

#133094  Adolf Hitler wrote              while in Prison in 1924.    
1
Mein Kampf   
Economic Consequences of the Peace   
Goodbye to All That   
The Black Hand   
Splendid Isolation   

#133095             was murdered in 1940 while living in exile in Mexico, presumably by one of Stalin's agents.   
5
Lenin   
John Maynard Keynes   
Erik Ludendorf   
Sinn Fein   
Leon Trotsky   

#133096             came to power in Italy in 1922.  He was able to transform the Italian government into a dictatorship which he headed for more than twenty years.   
5
Giuseppi Mazzini   
Guissepi Garabaldi   
Victor Emmanuel II   
Alexis Tocqueville   
Benito Mussolini   

#133097  The brilliant British economist              discussed the future of capitalism in his work The End of Laissez-Faire and was the author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace.     
2
Stanley Baldwin   
John Maynard Keynes   
Ramsay MacDonald   
James Joyce   
Herbert Spencer   

#133098  According to Professor Weber, the first generations to enjoy mass education in Europe were    
3
less law-abiding and less patriotic than any before or since   
less law-abiding but more patriotic than any before or since   
more law-abiding and more patriotic than any before or since   
more law-abiding but less patriotic than any before or since   
   

#133099  According to Professor Weber, by about what time were most children in Europe being taught to read and write in state schools?   
3
1775   
1815   
1880   
1939   
   

#133100  According to Professor Weber, which of the following countries was the first to drop out of World War I, on humiliating terms?   
4
Austria-Hungary   
Germany   
Italy   
Russia   
England   

#133101  According to Professor Weber, which disease killed two to three times more people than had died in the battles of World War I?   
1
influenza   
plague   
smallpox   
tuberculosis   
polio   

#133102  According to Professor Weber, how did the Nazis come to power in Germany?    
2
as the result of a military coup   
as the leaders of a conservative coalition   
by assassinating President Hindenburg   
by paralyzing the country with a series of strikes   
   

#133103  According to Professor Weber, protests by the German churches ended the extermination programs against   
1
the incurably ill   
the Gypsies   
the Jehovah's Witnesses   
the Jews