1. Question: How did peasants in Europe generally respond to the spread of industrialization in the 1840s?
A. They quickly abandoned their farms and moved their families long distances to the cities in the hopes of striking it rich
B. They kept their options open by combining factory or putting-out work with seasonal agricultural labor
C. They held out on their farms for as long as possible but often ended up falling prey to the attractions of a steady salary
D. They completely ignored the impact of industrialization, as it mainly affected urban areas, not the rural farmland
2. Question: What was the target of Otto von Bismarck's Kulturkampf in the 1870s?
A. Liberal political institutions
B. Nationalist movements
C. Artists
D. Organized religion
3. Question: Which of the following is an example of how empire reshaped the daily lives of the European upper classes?
A. European women began emulating African and Asian styles of dress, as clothing styles like saris and African-inspired headdresses became items of high fashion
B. Europeans imported servants from overseas colonies in large numbers to lend a sense of exoticism to their homes
C. Wealthy Europeans decorated their homes with trophies of big-game hunting expeditions in Africa and Asia, as well as imperial treasures like Oriental carpets, furniture, and exotic plants
D. Wealthy Europeans decorated their homes with trophies of big-game hunting expeditions in Africa and Asia, as well as imperial treasures like Oriental carpets, furniture, and exotic plants
4. Question: What was the main difference between colonialism and imperialism?
A. Peoples subject to imperialism developed an articulate and organized opposition, while colonized peoples seldom coordinated opposition movements
B. Unlike colonialism, imperialism was a more aggressive and more directly exploitative form of political domination
C. Colonialism typically involved settlers dependent on slave labor, whereas imperialism involved more indirect forms of economic exploitation and political domination
D. Unlike colonialism, which was motivated by European greed, imperialism focused on exerting cultural rather than economic hegemony
5. Question: In general, why did large numbers of emigrants depart from rural Ireland and Scandinavia?
A. The population was expanding so rapidly that these countries did not have enough jobs at which to employ the growing labor pool
B. Because none of these countries was an independent, democratic state, people left to find more freedom
C. American entrepreneurs who needed workers targeted these people and gave them large signing bonuses to emigrate
D. These three areas lagged behind the rest of Europe in unionization and workers' rights.