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In addition to examining everyday life, the literary Realists of the mid-nineteenth century were also interested in


A) completely avoiding romantic imagery, as shown in the works of Charles Dickens.
B) employing emotional and poetic language to cause social reform.
C) avoiding sentimental language by using careful observation and description.
D) showing the positive values of middle-class life.
E) using "stream of consciousness" techniques.

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The nineteenth century composer associated with the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total art work") was


A) Brahms.
B) Beethoven.
C) Liszt.
D) Mozart.
E) Wagner.

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Talk about : -First International

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Talk about : -Richard Wagner and Gesamtkunstwerk

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As a statesman, Bismarck can best be appreciated as


A) a determined nationalist who planned every move toward German unification.
B) a conservative but a traitor to his aristocratic class.
C) a consummate politician and opportunist capitalizing on unexpected events and manipulating affairs to his favor.
D) a narrow-minded tyrant incapable of mastering the art of negotiation vital to modern European diplomacy.
E) an enlightened despot.

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Talk about : -Count Otto von Bismarck

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Talk about : -Vera Zasulich

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Talk about : -Florence Nightingale

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Talk about : -joint-stock investment banks

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The Romantic nationalist who challenged Cavour for control of southern Italy was


A) Matteotti.
B) Mazzini.
C) Garibaldi.
D) Sforza.
E) Cavour.

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During the Franco-Prussian War


A) Napoleon III successfully defended the French homeland.
B) the French were decisively defeated at the Battle of Sedan.
C) Bismarck allowed the Prussian army to fall into a subordinate position.
D) a military standoff resulted between the two great armies.
E) a truce was finally agreed to, giving Germany the provinces of Alsace and Lorraine, while France gained Schleswig and Holstein.

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The dispute that sparked the Franco-Prussian War concerned


A) the candidacy of a member of the Hohenzollern dynasty to the Spanish throne.
B) Bismarck's decision to invade Luxembourg.
C) the French invasion of Alsace and Lorraine.
D) Napoleon III's annexation of Schleswig and Holstein.
E) the French seizure of Alsace and Lorraine.

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Which of the following statements best applies to Charles Darwin and his evolutionary theory?


A) His ideas were readily accepted by religious fundamentalists and cultural conservatives.
B) His works were truly revolutionary in that they were the first to propose a theory of evolution.
C) His theory emphasized the idea of the "survival of the fit" in which advantageous natural variants and environmental adaptations in organisms determine their survival.
D) His On the Origin of Species described man's evolution from animal origins through natural selection.
E) He envisioned utopian evolution, unlike Marx who predicted materialistic revolution.

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The Ausgleich or Compromise of 1867


A) created a loose federation of ethnic states within the Austrian Empire.
B) freed the serfs and eliminated compulsory labor services with the Austrian Empire.
C) made Austria part of the North German Confederation.
D) granted the Czechs and Slovenes home-rule.
E) created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.

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Talk about : -materialism

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Talk about : -Baron Haussmann and Paris

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Talk about : -Zollverein

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The Red Shirts fought for


A) Bismarck.
B) Cavour.
C) Garibaldi.
D) Mazzini.
E) Marx.

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The Realist novelist Madame Bovary indicated his contempt for middle-class hypocrisy and smugness was


A) Rudyard Kipling.
B) Gustave Flaubert.
C) William Thackeray.
D) Gustave Courbet.
E) Anthony Powell.

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Talk about : -Elizabeth Blackwell

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