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 Émile Zola

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 Anna Karenina

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Social Darwinist thought was generally

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A)  confined to Germany.
B)  confined to Germany and Great Britain.
C)  confined to Russia.
D)  widespread in Germany, the United States, and Great Britain.
E)  confined to France.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

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 Thomas Hill Green

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Which of the following does NOT support Darwin's evolutionary theory?

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A)  Food must be plentiful in order for a population to avoid survival.
B)  Special features in an individual or group determines the chance to survive a myriad of dangers.
C)  Exact duplications between generations guarantees survival.
D)  Over generations, some offspring will acquire special traits favorable to survival.
E)  Over time, natural selection causes the death of old and less adaptable species.F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 6

Which following thinker would have most agreed with the statement , "Human affairs operate with precise laws just as science understands the physical world".

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A)  Tolstoy
B)  Fourier
C)  Courbet
D)  Flaubert
E)  ComteF) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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 Positivism

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Positivism is a philosophical theory tha...

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Friedrich Engels

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Friedrich Engels was a German philosophe...

Question 9

Of the following, who stood strongly for female equality?

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A)  Rousseau
B)  Mill
C)  Darwin
D)  Byron
E)  MarxF) A) and D)
G) C) and E)

Question 10

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Ivan Turgenev

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Ivan Turgenev was a Russian novelist, po...

Question 11

Which of the following is not a good match?

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A)  Turgenev and Sketches
B)  Leo Tolstoy and War and Peace
C)  Charles Dickens and Bleak House
D)  Flaubert and Madame Bovary
E)  Henrik Ibsen and Hard TimesF) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

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How would you describe the relationship of Social Darwinism to Enlightenment thought?

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Social Darwinism can be seen as a distor...

Question 13

Which of the following statements is INCORRECT in describing the similarities between liberals and Marxists?

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A)  Both believed in social progress and valued human talents
B)  Both called for abandoning old ideas and creating a new harmonious society.
C)  Both believed in the goodness and perfection of human nature and that these beliefs were founded on rational thought.
D)  Both looked to the Enlightenment for inspiration.
E)  Both believed that violence and revolution was necessary to achieve their goals.F) D) and E)
G) C) and E)

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According to Marx, the engine of historical change was

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A)  class struggle.
B)  Absolute Spirit.
C)  the masses' envy of the wealthy.
D)  long-term fluctuations in the price of basic foods.
E)  racial conflict.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 15

Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Sarah Grimke

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Sarah Grimke was an American abolitionis...

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? 
 Karl Marx

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Karl Marx was a German philosopher, econ...

Question 17

Historians would agree that Social Darwinism

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A)  led some to believe that the extinction of so-called "inferior races" was a good thing.
B)  contended that through evolution, states would eventually eliminate war.
C)  applauded the cosmopolitanism of the philosophes.
D)  continued Enlightenment traditions.
E)  strengthened Christian belief.F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 18

The preeminent literary genre for realist writers was

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A)  lyrical poetry.
B)  epic poetry.
C)  the riddle.
D)  the short story.
E)  the novel.F) B) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 19

Darwin's theory of evolution challenged traditional Christian beliefs in all of the following ways except that it

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A)  contradicted the account of creation in the Old Testament book Genesis.
B)  deprived man of the privilege of being God's special creation.
C)  suggested that the human race had evolved as the result of random natural processes.
D)  undermined the infallibility of scripture and the conviction that of the Bible was indeed the Word of God .
E)  was incompatible with the notion of a divine creator.F) B) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

The author of War and Peace is ___________.​

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A)  ​Honore' de Balzac ​
B)  ​Ivan Turgenev ​
C)  ​Leo Tolstoy ​
D)  ​Charles Dickens ​
E)  ​Emile ZolaF) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Exam 8: Thought and Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Realism, Positivism, Darwinism, and Social Criticism

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Anna Karenina

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Of the following, who stood strongly for female equality?

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Ivan Turgenev

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Social Darwinist thought was generally

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Which of the following does NOT support Darwin's evolutionary theory?

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Sarah Grimke

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Positivism

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Thomas Hill Green

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According to Marx, the engine of historical change was

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How would you describe the relationship of Social Darwinism to Enlightenment thought?

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Which of the following is not a good match?

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The preeminent literary genre for realist writers was

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Key Terms Instructions: Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? Friedrich Engels

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Historians would agree that Social Darwinism

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